[Troporting could probably do a fair bit of good here, too, but it doesn't seem to be as diverse as investiture.]

[Yeah, everybody troports the same way.]

[Granted that any given troporter can probably do more things than any given mage.]

[Well, if they're good at it. I'm really good.]

[Emily and I are on the high end of mages and whether or not you rate us as more powerful than you, we seem to have considerably narrower spheres of influence.]

[Yeah, but you can affect things you aren't touching, there's that.]

[True enough.]

[It'd be so convenient if I could troport at range, like, wow.]

[That does sound impressive.]

[I wonder if there's a way to get hearts and do the investiture thing with each other like you two did.]

[...I mean...it doesn't really feel like anything until you invest it. For all we know--maybe entering the universe did it, or getting touched by my mind-heart-power. We wouldn't know unless you actually tried and failed to invest it, and even then investiture was tricky for us.]

[Tricky how?]

[You're not supposed to be able to invest your heart in your own body. Doing it anyway involved convincing ourselves that "no I'm not putting it in my body I'm putting it in her body" long enough for it to work.]

[So maybe whichever of us is faded back and not feeling body things should do it. Or try to do it without waking up all the way, anyway.]

[I don't know if that would be necessary--Emily and I are both each as awake as the other, and we managed it--but it might help.]

[What do you actually - do?]

[{This.} It's a purely mental action, although some people like to dress it up with physical ceremony.]

[Most people don't have--someone like us. Investing your heart in someone is a huge commitment. It gives them a lot of power over you.]

[Does the ritual help?]

[Not really. It's just symbolic.]

[Crystal's trying but she's not getting anywhere. She's going to come up and can you tell the thing again?]

{Thing}

Click.