Mora finds an introduction to nearby planes that seems to believe finite planets and consistent gravity are actually statistically pretty unusual!

Huh. Hisame's targeting has been doing more work than she thought. Or this neighborhood is weird. Or both.

"Hard to tell without a wider survey..."

"It looks like there is a plane shift spell."

"Perhaps we can start on some statistics, then, someday. And it'd be - good, to not be entirely reliant on Hisame for getting around."

"Yes."

"It - would not have been good, for many reasons, if she'd stayed dead."

"The Keres would have ripped the world apart."

"I think Hisame is - probably not going to do that lightly again but I'm not sure she actually gets the - fundamental problem."

"Do you think it would be worth attempting to explain it to her?"

"I'm not sure. I can try?"

"I'll distract the Keres. Wave a spellbook in her face or something."

She laughs. "I might want help understanding the Keres, but I suppose if I come to an impasse with Hisame we can always do more than one conversation."

"I am happy to assist if you have any specific questions."

"I think you do - fondness very different than we do? There's - obstacles, people we don't care about, people we're fond of in a killing way, people we're fond of in a not-killing way, very important people we might make a few decisions differently for, and - central people? Who we'd define ourselves around. I have a central person, but I'm fairly sure Hisame doesn't. None of these are - singular? If I found a second central person they'd join Nausicaa. They wouldn't displace her."

"Hm. For us- I would say very few people matter enough to think about at all? Either positively or negatively. But when we do find a person like that, they become... a focus. The Keres has bound a considerable portion of herself up in Hisame. If she loses Hisame, she loses herself."

"The number of people we don't care about at all is - very small. And if I lost even Nausicaa, permanently, I'd recover. But - I think there are cases we could model that would make us lose ourselves, and I might be able to get her to understand that."

Eliana nods.

"The other way to attack the problem, of course, is to give the Keres someone else to anchor herself to."

"Hisame would be willing," she says, confidently, "Though she'd be more enthused about one of her own alts."

"I suspect the Keres would be as well, though she would not want to share."

"We might have to find an extra one of Hisame and me, then. Still, getting Hisame to be less - well, idiotic - shouldn't be impossible."

"One hopes."

"Well, they'll be glued to each other for a while, so we might as well study and explore, in the mean time."

"Indeed."

And on! To libraries and research, at least until the library people tell them to leave around sunset.

Mora gets herself a library card and two thick tomes to read in the hotel, through the process of somehow looking immensely trustworthy, and then a walk through the evening rain it is.

Is Elatra done meditating or whatever?