"Uh. We're friends, anyone who likes me has to deal with him."

"Ah, I was confused because you asked if I think Scott is attractive, which isn't relevant to simple friendship. And Scott is perfectly likeable either way. Felix and I have a similar situation, except the prospect of dating the same people appeals to us."

Stiles partakes of the snacks quietly.

"Did I say something wrong?"

"No, I just think we should be professional. And wear clothes, probably. Both of us."

"Well, I can accept a professional relationship if that is what you prefer. I don't think that has anything to do with how much clothes we wear."

Is he blushing again? Yup.

"So. Immortality, we should come up with a strategy."

Fenris snorts. "We probably should. Are you sure you don't want to get more comfortable?"

"Maybe later. We've got plotting!"

Plotting happens. Back home only a few hundred people are aware that this kind of immortality exists, a group comprised of mostly dreamshaping created people, relatives of dreamshapers and the dreamshapers themselves, in descending order of magnitude. The twins held discretion to who would get immortality and sometimes they would trade it for favors. And most people who knew would be disadvantaged if the secret came out or if they antagonized the twins too much. Things have been peaceful enough lately that a couple of times they randomly selected who would get the immortality. Anyone with a public identity would need a new one afterwards since wings are a significant cosmetic change, but are ultimately something known to be possible for humans.

Here, Fenris guesses that they can adopt a similar strategy with the caveat that the immortals would be more noticeable in public so they would inevitably need to hide unless Fenris can add the ability to shift away the wings by doing the magical equivalent of reverse-engineering werewolves. The possibility to make the immortality transmissable like the lycanthrope did cross Fenris' mind but he is skeptical that this is a) possible b) wise until he has a much deeper understanding of werewolves and how they fit in the world.

"Playing with how werewolves work seems like the hardest way to do this, better to use dreamshaping. How does dreamshaping work, anyway, how do you come up with new things?" 

"I would still use dreamshaping. I can 'look' at the immortals and see their magic and how it interacts with the immortality magic and there is some room to improve from there. I'm pretty certain that adding new powers is possible. I just never had the opportunity to dedicate myself to the project."

"And not sure what you mean with 'work', but when we sleep we feel we are in this sort of disembodied and floating in a sea of energy and that energy causes the dimension to expand. Each dimension has it's limitations, Felix can create vast ridiculously luxurious spaces, but no magic objects. I can create the immortality springs, vast frozen wastelands and sea-serpent monsters that guard the former, but basically nothing else. Other dreamshapers back home had similar limits."

"So it's not really about inventing, you just have to discover what you can already do?"

"Well, standard inventing is discovering what you can already do. But in a lot of senses yes, there is a matter of being creative, and coming up with narratives that justify what you want to do. Felix can do a lot of stuff by convincing himself that his dimension is owned is the home of an eccentric billionaire that can buy anything. I'm stuck with what I got because my dimension is a mockery of the Stormlords' afterlife and it will be like that until I can resurrect my parents and make them immortal."

"Could you convince it that frozen wastelands are a good source of immortality, too?"

Fenris shakes his head. "Wouldn't fit the theme and my immortality is very strong, it could easily get the same effects for maybe a tenth of the power, but I have high standards for so it has a lot of redundancy and fail safes."

"Can anyone become a dreamshaper? We should just find someone who likes immortality to do it." 

"Yes, but there is a risk the person might never wake up and they only control the power if they wake up. There is also no way to stop being a dreamshaper and not expanding the dimension can be hard on the short term and is impossible on the long term. Worth looking into it, but finding volunteers that fit 'likes immortality' and 'will accept death if they dimension is dangerous' will make things hard."

"Scott would do it, if he found out before I did. Now he has me to stop that." 

"I can appreciate dreamshaping potential, but I'll not jump at the first opportunity to risk someone's life like that, don't worry. And the relationship between personality and dimension might not be straightforward either way."

"How risky is it? Should I try it?"

"For the dreamshaper? With two dreamshapers and five immortals around it is pretty safe, we can just open a portal to your dimension find you and then lead you out of the portal, which will wake you up just fine and give you control over dreamshaping. And I'm not exactly offering it, dreamshaping can be quite dangerous on itself."

"Is it really easy to mess up? I can probably handle weird magic, that sounds like exactly my sort of thing." 

"Not exactly mess up. But your pocket dimension might be dangerous in a way that you can't contain or change, I'm talking stuff of literal nightmares. Not to mention that we are not yet on the share-great-power stage yet. And while we are pretty certain the dimensions are somehow personality based, the data on what traits are relevant and how they manifest is rather lacking."

"Okay, fine, great power, great responsibility. I get it. I should probably get out of your room, huh."