"The kids died when Doriath went to war with Tumunzahar."

"Did anyone tell him or you that Dwarves and literally only Dwarves in Ozymandias have an afterlife. Unless you count Mandos, which, fuck Mandos."

"I'll tell him. Not sure what we can do with it, but - I'll tell him."

"It exists physically enough that it has conjurable written stuff, which suggests that it might be possible to get there once we've got interdimensional travel down."

"That would be lovely."

"...Anyway. I discovered that Caranthir was married to a dwarf and they had children and that at least the first child had been a surprise and then I was like, 'um, if Elf not-having-babies-ness doesn't extend to Dwarves, maybe it doesn't extend to humans,' and so I checked out Estolad and there were a bunch of half-elf kids there."

"By accident?"

"I told you you wouldn't like it!"

"We're going to prevent it everywhere, but I'll admit being appalled it happened routinely among our own people -"

"Don't look at me, my magic does birth control and I've been teaching it everywhere I can."

"Good for you."

"I mean, I've mostly been teaching it for the de-aging and the disease prevention and stuff, and I'm not getting pushy about the birth control part if people aren't interested, but yeah."

"This sounds like terribly useful magic."

"It is! It has its limitations, though, it doesn't do magic objects the way yours does. I mean, there's enchanted stuff, but that works differently."

"My world's actually not magic at all, except summoning. And I suppose parlor tricks, which are completely useless."

"Summoning? Parlor tricks?"

"Summoning's how we got Edie-who-can-make-arbitrary-stuff and also Emily-who-can-change-arbitrary-stuff-into-other-stuff, it grabs people - willing people - from nearby dimensions where everybody has magic."

"Cool. So what're parlor tricks?"

"If you concentrate really hard for a long time you can make something change color. Or similar."

"Huh."

"Singularity has no native magic, and shiny tree Ardas all have the same."

"Do any of them even have shiny trees anymore?"

"Well, no, but it's the principle."

"If you're making fun of us for our vegetative light sources can't you just poke at the fruit?"