"That might shed some light on them—and help figure out a way to defeat them."

"What d'you want me to conjure -"

"I confess to not having given much thought to how to come up with the history of a species using a conjuration power. Do you have a standard procedure to do these things or should we try to work it out from scratch?"

"For something this urgent we'd pull a million people in Space Arda off their normal jobs and conjure the complete written works of the relevant civilizations - the one the Entities are from, and the ones they've destroyed - and have everyone read stuff and escalate relevant stuff. We don't have a million people - I could make them, I guess -"

"Has your prediction on whether the people you'd make would object to being made changed?"

"They definitely wouldn't object if we need them to save billions of worlds from genocide aliens, that's kind of the most extenuating circumstance you could possibly come up with."

"The fact that we know this much at all and even have this level of organization is sheer dumb luck; if whatever messed with Eden's plan—we suspect an unexpected third Entity, without a pair—hadn't happened, if she hadn't let Contessa get the instant victory power, if Contessa hadn't immediately thought of finding a way to keep her memories of her trigger event and stop the Entities, if Doctor Mother hadn't been exploring the place after several interdimensional portals popped up and met her just as Eden crippled her..."

"The vision the Entities had of the future included a broken-up Earth with several thousand little communities that could only barely scrape by. The Entities would provide us with monsters to test our mettle against, and revive us whenever we came too close to annihilation, pretending to be helpers and saints, keeping humanity exactly on the track of optimal shard development."

"Then the peal might still have saved your world but they wouldn't even have known that these disasters affect the whole neighborhood - or about all the other entities killing other worlds, there might be some even closer than Earth to getting shredded - or - or whatever -"

He wraps his wings around himself tightly.

Legend hugs him.

    "So yes, I do believe, making those people might be a good idea," says Doctor Mother.

"Okay." Here is a very large computer server - "it takes the chips a minute to write, there's more on each of them than your world has produced so far in all of history. I'm going to make a Maitimo, he'll know who else to make. He's my son - well, in universes where I have kids, I don't because I'm still a kid and also I'm growing up faster than my wife now so I don't really know if I'll still marry her. There're six Space ones, I know Leaf best because he hangs out in Warp with us but I should make one of the ones who doesn't have a boyfriend -" chip, which he inserts into the machine -

Hug.

"Note that my prediction for when the world would end takes this into account. It's... unlikely that Scion will do anything drastic anytime soon, but your arrival—and your peal's—could affect things in unpredictable ways."

Nod nod. 

The machine spits out a chip.

He squints at it, and now it's a person -

"- Epic," says the person, standing up, "it's not okay to fork people without their suicide trigger -"

" - oh, sorry, forgot - there now -"

His expression flickers and then he extends his arms. 

And he bounds into them and squeezes him tighter than it's safe to squeeze humans - "I wrote the peal but they might not find us in time and there're billions of worlds going to get destroyed -"

Squeeze. "That's an excellent reason, I'm not mad at you, billions of worlds - how much time do we have -"

"For this world, decades. For all the others—I don't know."

"If what we know of physics is right it might well be the case that there's one world dying per second or something."

"Hello, Maitimo. It is a pleasure to meet you. I am Legend. These are Hero, Alexandria, Eidolon, Doctor Mother, and Contessa."

"Pleasure to meet you as well -"

"It's an Earth it's 1994 and there're evil aliens that give people superpowers I got lost like a week ago, I've been writing home -"

- you can send it while they talk, I have more than two conversations' attentional capacity -