"...except that assumes powers work in adjacent dimensions, which is what we'd be checking -"

"Oh, you meant arriving in a vacuum in another dimension. Were you thinking of breathing in a vacuum through technology?"

"Can't you go to the dimension you were in immediately before arriving here?" wonders Hero.

"So that's the thing - the dimension I thought I was in immediately before arriving here was Warp, the one I live in, but I can't get back there from here, I think I somehow jumped two dimensions at once."

"And if you hop to a random dimension you won't be able to come back? Or do you think you could end up hopping two dimensions again?"

"No, I was using a prototype worldleaper and I can just use the normal ones. But there is at least one dimension that is unfriendly to external magic and technology, breaks it all. There might be others. There's probably a 99% chance I'd be fine. But if I landed in a bad world I wouldn't be able to come back."

"Can you teleport equipment as well as people with these worldleapers?"

"Capacity limit's pretty low, but it's not zero."

"How much information do you need to conjure objects? Could you do it from blueprints and plans?"

"Easy."

"And how low is your capacity, exactly?"

"Can't take a spaceship with me, could take, like, a couple people or equivalent amount of cargo?"

"How about a person and, say, a suit that could resist space for long enough for them to write you a letter?"

"That'd work fine. They'd 99 percent be safe but that's not for sure, they should know that -"

"I'm sure we could find someone willing to bet their life on a ninety-nine percent chance of being able to secure the likes of Gray Boy permanently."

"Okay. I'll make you a worldleaper and you can see if powers have a dimension limit. Or an adjacency limit. Most stuff has one or the other."

"How would we test the adjacency limit? Can you target specifically away from a given dimension?"

"If we go to one dimension and then hop to another one at random from there, it'd be really not likely it happened to be a neighbor of this one, most dimensions aren't adjacent. And I could test by trying to teleport back here from the second dimension."

"So that's a thing to bring up later today. Hero, have you slept?"

"I—um—well, no, but the song—"

"Have you eaten?"

"Ummm."

"I can make food. Uh, breakfast?"

"Yes, that'd be good, I think."

Here are waffles and eggs and bacon and pancakes and fruit salad and some of Tirion's street food which he misses maybe a little.