"Yeah, 'is this a specific person' is not the only bit of science I would need to do to find out if this approach is viable. Though, I won't lie, I'm getting my hopes up that it is, because Cricket is really cool."

Purrrrrrrr.

"Next time I'm in a dungeon with relatively kidnappable monsters I can grab you one."

"Sweet! I appreciate that! ...I might actually want to do dungeons too, because--I can make a portal to my pocket dimension from wherever I am, which seems like it could be really useful for rescuing kidnap victims. Or escaping a collapsing dungeon without having to make it to the exit."

"There's dungeons where I wouldn't recommend trying it but more where that'd be useful! Having an entrance into a dungeon while it collapses wouldn't be bad for your pocket dimension?"

"It seems like at worst it'd close the portal but I can't rule out being unpleasantly surprised."

"Yeah, if you can't replace the pocket dimension I wouldn't personally want to try it, stuff in a collapsing dungeon doesn't come back."

"I also had the thought of--deliberately staying inside an S-rank dungeon that was sealing itself, during a confluence, to keep rescuing people--but, uh, that definitely falls into the category of ambitions that are not currently within reach."

"Save it for when you can, like, remotely operate a surplus body or something. Can you do that? Even if you can it might not work, comms generally don't across dungeon apertures."

"Lots of things to test before I try something like that, yeah."

"Do comms go across your portal? Like a phone or whatever."

"Uh...well, I'd probably need to make a portal in the sky of my demiplane for it to connect to a satellite? But, like, walkie-talkies should work fine by default? I don't know exactly how future tech does signalling but, like, the portal is the only point of connection, so if you have radio waves not pointed directly through the portal then they'd be cut off?"

"Affords testing, then."

"Yeah."

"Does the stuff your wand makes have a name?"

"Uh. 'Magicite.'"

"Who named it magicite?"

"Someone bad at naming things! I don't know more specifically than that though."

"They were so bad at naming things!"

"In their defense, I did translate it a little bit. In not their defense, it sounded just as stupid in the original."

"What's the original? 'Chai tea' is stupid but it doesn't sound stupid, we can borrow it and then it won't have to sound stupid here."

"That's fair. Koizumr.*"

*Pronounced koh-ee-zoom-rr, not coy-zoom-rr

"Koizumr. That doesn't sound stupid in English at all! It sounds pretty."

"Yeah! But you understand, I had to share my pain."

"Completely understandable."