"Yeah, don't follow."

"Uh, explaining the context would be complicated, but the relevant part of what she's saying is that he's not Best Impromptu Therapist because impromptu therapy is a general skill that he has, but because the things he says are disproportionately helpful with her issues in particular."

"Okay. That does make more sense. Anyway, you're in another Arda? Regular or shiny-tree?"

"The Trees are dead. Anyway, wouldn't it make just as much sense to ask, 'regular or Space?' As far as I can tell we outnumber you."

"I mean, yeah, but you've got fruits on chariots flying through the sky, that's not regular no matter how many there are. And there's way more people on the technologically advanced Ardas, so most people in Ardas still live in one of ours."

"Hey, Maitimo, you named a figure earlier for number of Ardas, didn't you?"

"There are four hundred million."

"How did you get this number?"

"Asked Bar. You can't ask directly about worlds but you can ask about published works - so in this case 'Bar, of the worlds that have published works in Quenya referring to a Melkor, how many also have published works discussing interplanetary travel between Valinor and Endorë?' That won't catch all of them, there might be some regular Ardas that haven't gotten to interstellar travel yet, but it should catch most..."

Odette goes to interrogate the Bar in a fashion intended to determine the ratio of Space Ardas to regular Ardas.

Shiny tree Ardas outnumber Space Ardas by a factor of thirteen to one.

She presents this figure to Abbadon Tyelcormo.

"Okay, we can call them 'Common' and 'Space' but I'm still not yielding 'regular' to planets lit by fruit on chariots. And we might still have the population edge."

"You realize now I have to call 'em regular just to tweak you, right?"

"Watch out, I'm going to call them Fruit Ardas."

"Oh, you think that's going to bother me? My magic is great with organic shit. If the Sun is a fruit that suggests I could conjure a cup of juice in the middle of Angband when I get strong enough to work my way past Morgoth's Morgothness and watch good things happen."

"Stone Age Ardas? Have they gotten around to inventing indoor plumbing?"

"Yes. Although Illia did have to import the printing press."

"Good for her. Electricity?"

"What's that?"

"Edie can show you - darling?"

What exactly are you asking me to make, electricity isn't--well, usually--a visible phenomenon.

Lightbulb? Circuit board, like the kind they use to teach kids? Computer?

I'm not really sure any of those constitute "showing someone what electricity is" when they don't know anything about it. Not obvious enough what's going on.

Showing what cool stuff you can do with it, then, whatever. You could also just make lightning unless Security'll be mad at us.