"Yes."

"No cycle. You or your partner if we can bring her back. No killing anyone in non-cycle incidents either. No hurting people. Can you make the others of your species stop too?"

"I cannot."

"Can you tell us how to get them to?"

"I do not know how."

"Would your counterpart?"

"It is possible. I do not know."

"I can take you to Gem. She can grant you a wish. You will have to agree with her on how to make your wish; if you don't, she won't grant it, and your chance will be wasted. It will limit your and your counterpart's powers but it may bring her back."

"Will this avatar remain connected to the rest of its body?"

"I don't know how your avatar works."

"It is connected to its other shards and present in many universes at the same time."

"Universes obey a principle called 'adjacency'. Only some universes are connected. It might be that your avatar can persist even when out of this neighborhood, or it might not."

"It should persist if it is connected to its main body."

"I cannot tell you in advance if it will stay connected if moved away."

"Acknowledged."

"Shall I bring you to Gem?"

"Yes."

She writes a note first. No one comes to tell her to abort.

It's nine hops.

First hop's fine.

Second hop the body goes inert.

She brings it back.

It reactivates as soon as they're one hop from the neighborhood.

"Looks like your avatar does not cope with travel out of neighborhood. Unless your neighborhood overlaps with Gem's that means you can't make a wish."

"It needs to be connected."

"We've established that, yes."

"I could create a connection."