"Yeah. If it helps this is not super low stakes on my end either, this is a big deal."

Yeah.  Good.

Maybe you could stick a pen on a planchette, and then at least I wouldn't have to hold it up.  If you don't have a laptop.  Or a typewriter.

"I have a computer, I just didn't bring it and its battery life is real bad. I do not own a typewriter or know where to get one. Would it help if the writing utensil were lighter? Golf pencil? Is it worth me ducking out to get stuff and bring it back?"

I mean for all the days that aren't Halloween, but thanks.

I would feel better about wasting today if I knew there was an okay option going forward.

"I am not planning to just never talk to you again."

But I won't be able to talk to you as easily.

"No spells about that?"

We can probably work something out but I wasn't thinking about that because I was instead panicking.  Not for every day but more often than once a year.

"Alternate Wednesdays when it's partly sunny and I haven't sent all my Christmas thank-you notes yet and the moon is having seasonal allergies, yeah-huh."

"Ha, ha," he wrote sincerely.

"Oh did he now, that's good. Did you ever write a new spell, is that a thing?"

Not yet.  It's possible.  That's one reason teaching people magic could be so dangerous.

"No shit. - I do not have much ability to assist you in physically defending this here book if we invite a media circus over for the stupid ghost tricks."

Ideally you untether me and I go do the stupid ghost tricks elsewhere.

"Oh, see, I didn't know that was a thing, 'cause of not having read the whole book."

Well it is.

"How exciting. What other things are things?"

Things affecting mooring, for ghosts.  Ways for us to possess you guys, or objects.  Ways to communicate.  Getting information, becoming more powerful, some healing.  If someone dies around you bring them to me as fast as you can, there's a revivification spell that works any time but only for my weird kind of ghost and only while they're fresh.

"That would be very awkward to manage but fortunately is also extremely unlikely to come up."

That's not the only

He scratches that out.

Right.  I think it might also be possible to take living people to the other worlds.  They might die on them by default but maybe there could be space suits, or magic protection.  We could send probes, maybe.

"These are like, planets type of worlds or alternate universe type of worlds?"

I don't know.  I'm not sure anyone does but it's not exactly easy to spread word if someone figures it out.

"So they're at least not obviously alternate universes, like, they don't have dinosaurs or the timeline in which Rome never fell or whatever."

I've never heard of anyone seeing a living creature on one before.

"Nor evidence of past living creatures?"