"...that's weird, I'm kinda terrified of mind reading. Um, no offense—"

"Nah Bells are too. Elspeth's just weird."

"I mean, I guess it's not that bad if it's someone I like. But if it was my father..." She shudders.

"Yeah. Anyway, I don't. Promise."

"Okay. Can you tell me more about your multiverse?"

He totally can! Here are all of the planets and all of the hims and what they are doing and languages spoken everywhere and important historical events!

Sadde is kinda bummed out that they don't have others of her but it's alright, she guesses.

"I mean, we might and not have noticed, there are trillions of people, if you don't think an alt of you would be likely to take over the world then I probably wouldn't know about them even if there are lots and they're doing cool stuff."

"I dunno I'm eight."

"Yeah but some of your alts're probably grownups."

"So they didn't take over anywhere, or they don't exist."

"Yeah. You might have alts on the other Earths, Earths have lots of alts of people."

"I wanna meet them!"

"Yeah, everyone probably will so most of the Earths haven't been told about other Earths."

"Can't you make a magic internet that connects all Earths?"

"Crystal balls are the only things that do interworld communication - they can be mass produced but there're lots of things higher on the priority list -"

"But if you produce them won't you be able to have lots more people to help with the priority list?"

"...maybe? I'd have to ask Boots, I don't know how they decide that stuff exactly."

"Oh. Okay, I guess."

"I help develop wizardry items and stuff, but I don't do the managing stuff as much because it's boring."

"It's not boring! It's super cool there are lots of things and people and you have to understand a lot and—"

"Yeah but inventing new wizardry's way more cool and you don't have to deal with people being horrible and annoying if you're inventing stuff."

"Hmm, I guess..."

"Maitimos like people and management stuff and I guess my dad must, though I never actually asked him...anyway, I'm not any good at it."

"I dunno what I'm good at, I'm eight."