She nods.

"And that was part of the proud history of Elan. Fun isn't it?"

"It's... bad. I'm not sure it's significantly worse than my world's."

Shrug. "I figure not. But it is context."

"Yeah," she sighs.

"Does your world get pretty bad?"

"Yyyyeah. Erm—are you done with the histories of your universes?"

"Well, Elsewhere might count as its own world, but most of its modern history is a branch of Elan's. We can research Elsewhere's ancient history from Bar, but..." Felix shrugs.

"Well, tell me about how it continues? And then we can figure it out via Bar, and then I guess I can tell you about my world."

Katur continues the history. The most notable points were three wars that erupted around the world. Elsewhere was only a little affected because "destroy the portals" was one of the key practices of the first war and due to the nature of the portals (you can't really pick where they land, only try randomly until you get something useful). During the third war Elsewhere completely closed itself off from Elan well in advance. During this time Earth - which was already annexed to Elsewhere at this point and was regarded as somewhat backwater - managed to go through the industrial revolution, which prompted the interested of an enclave of Elsewhere-based groups. This enclave managed to hold nearly-exclusive monopoly on the transportation between worlds; specifically, the transport of Earth's industrialized products to Elan.

"Is that true to this day?"

"Yes, honestly, the status quo is a bit ridiculous and harmful, but no one feels compelled to change things and has the power to do so correctly."

"Why can't other people just open their own portals?"

"Portal-making isn't an absolute secret, but it is a well-guarded one, enough that most people that have it will have economic incentives to keep it a secret. There are smugglers though, my family for example. Portal-making is lifeforce intensive too and the other end of the portal is pretty much random, so it isn't something that you can do trivially."

"Also, revealing magic to Earth would be trivial, doing so responsibly or safely would be the problem. Which doesn't mean that open relations between worlds wouldn't be beneficial."

"...so I could help with that, huh?"

"I love the way you think."

"I firmly maintain that it's the only sensible way to think."

"It most certainly is. Even if all you could do was replicating portals that would help immensely."

"Isn't it good that I can probably do a lot more than just that?"

"I think he is trying not keeping his hopes up, because he might pass out with joy if you can do targeted portals."

"I'm not sure I could get quite there, but at the very least I can replace lost vitality things, yeah."

"Any help is appreciated, a whole lot."

She grins. "Any more history?"

"We pretty much ran out of things to say about our worlds. How about yours?"