"...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."

"I know what my alts are good at so I can sorta guess."

"That's another good thing about finding alts, then. People can figure out faster what they're good at."

"Yeah. And, like, if there are ways they might mess up, so they know to avoid those."

"Yeah!"

"Maybe we should let some private Earth company handle mass manufacture of crystal balls, they'd probably make money off it."

"That sounds like a good idea! Then it doesn't have to be you guys and stuff can just happen."

"Yeah. I think the Bells mostly don't want to give out wizardry because it's super powerful without Materia as a check? But on Earths that aren't adjacent to Materia that'd be less of a problem. On Ardas it's more of one because of Maiar."

"Check?"

"Materia being evil, you can't experiment with wizardry and get super powerful with it. But outside Materia you can. I got an interdimensional teleport and stuff. It'd be sort of like publishing instructions on how to make really powerful bombs with household materials? Like, most people wouldn't do it but a few might. Except it's more complicated than that because you can also do tons of good."

"Oh. Can't you just teach the finished things without the experimental parts?"

"Easy to reverse-engineer. Well, not easy, but Boots did it and so some people'll be able to."

"Hmm... I dunno how to fix it. I bet I would if I were older."

"Well, good news is, you'll get older!"

"Yeah but it'll take a long time."

"....we could try to play some tricks with relativity, if we're in a big hurry..."

"How?"

"Uh, I'd have to work it out - it'd be easier to do the other way around - but I bet there's a way - uh, relativity says that things that are going faster experience less time having passed -"