"Maybe figuring which one from clothes or something."

"Tab," identifies Pen, peering at her.

"Well, she'll be the one we send the message to, then. When I work out how..."

"How do sending messages between worlds having no Jane? With Jane she bounce them. Not between worlds is just" [this thing.]

"Okay, make sense. How put it?"

"Uh, long story short, magic. But I'd need to talk to some people, call in some favors, it's - rather far away. I couldn't do it by myself."

"You have sharing magic?"

"Ah, no. If I have kids, they have it, but I can't get other people magic, unfortunately."

"Wishing it on maybe?"

"I don't know the specifics involved in making wishes, I wouldn't know. It'd be nice if you could, if leading towards causing a social upheaval."

"There bunches of magic that can wish on. Not all kind though."

"Well, that's useful. We'll see, I suppose."

"Mmhm. And the mommies put a Jane here probably!"

"I don't know what the result of that would be."

"Then can coming going here easy."

"Well, yes, but what would they do with the ability to get here easily? Just visit for tea and crumpets? Attempt to take over the world? Spruce up the place with magic and keep everything tidy? Invade?"

Pen giggles. "Sprucing! Isn't any one Mommy here to giving presents for doing it herself so maybe not as much."

"I see," he says. "Is there a good example of a world they spruced that I could look at?"

"All their ones but some have going longer than others. Ummmmmm Pattern had so long a time in Origin doing things while Jane break."

"What are the identifying characteristics of Pattern and Origin?"

"I will look for an empire on a ringed planet," he says. "Later, I mean. Not now. One thing at a time, I think."

"'Kay."