"Does it have a time or range limit? How does it deal with invisible wavelengths?"

"It handles stuff outside normal visible range but you still show up on radar - if I add inaudibility you don't do that but then you can't talk - no time limit, range is visual again - I could go into space and turn the whole planet invisible but I couldn't selectively make something in another building which I can't see invisible."

"And the target remains invisible until you undo it?"

"Yeah."

"Is that a shareable-but-hard-to-scale spell like the healing one? Is it possible to make the target invisible to others but their equipment, like the inside of their helmet, visible to themselves? And would you be willing to use it on stealth teams if we asked you to?"

"I can't make their equipment visible to them or them visible to each other, it's invisible or not. It's shareable exactly like the healing one - once I have an artifact for someone I can give them invisibility and healing - but healing's less weaponizable - I actually could turn the whole world invisible and it'd be horrible - so I don't want to give it out so much. I'll make teams invisible for you."

She nods. "That seems to be all, then, unless you've thought of any more miracles you can pull off."

"There might be a power that could do resurrection in combination with me? If I try to make a person I get an exact atom-for-atom replica but they're magically not a person, I don't know what kind of power would work around that but if you can think of anything that might -"

    "That depends very strongly on what exactly 'magic' means, here, and how it's preventing the, ah, body from becoming a person."

"The person is identical to the original, then?" asks Hero. "As in, it literally is just magic that's actively preventing them from being a person?"

"I mean, depends on the kind of person, but with humans, yeah."

"There are other species that aren't identical?"

"Materians have souls and we can't figure out how to resurrect them without getting their souls back somehow, flat Elves have a different kind of souls and you can't resurrect us from our bodies at all - though Yeerks morphed flat-Elf should work, now that I think about it - basically, that's how it works for species that run on physics."

The lower half of his face suggests some bewilderment. "I suppose magic does imply not running on physics," he manages.

"Anyway, everyone here's human so it's an atom-for-atom copy of a person that somehow isn't a mind, and if you've got anything that could do - the equivalent of what we do for Space Elves, which is writing the chip to another chip, after which it works fine -"

"We probably don't have that," Costa-Brown says, "but it's not a priori impossible. Very well, we'll send you a list of things to do, probably via Legend or Hero."

"Okay. Or via writing 'letter to Epic' on a piece of paper, that works too."

"It's more that we'd rather have someone supervise these things and run interface with other people who might not take you seriously given your appearance."

"I'm older than I look. But okay."

"Yes, and I believe you, but not everyone will, and in any case they will probably not subconsciously respect you even if they do, whereas Legend and Hero command some more respect. Eidolon would work, too, but I expect you'd prefer dealing with the two of them."

"I like Legend and Hero."

Hero grins.

And Legend smiles.

    "Very well. Thank you for your time and cooperation—if this were a story I would call you Deus Ex Machina, and not complain one bit," says Costa-Brown.

Bounce bounce. "Yeah, usually places peal too late, if there's bad stuff happening."

Costa-Brown, Guerra, and Mr. Prescott start packing up their things—folders and papers.

Legend looks at Fëanáro. "Too late how?"

"Uh, after the war or whatever has been settled decisively?"