"There's a lot of tricky hangups in there."

"Some of it's - I don't know. About more than the literal contents of an item. I think it might have to do with... Equalizing impact on the world? Even if some of it's metaphorically so. Which I suppose could be called 'narrative weight.'"

"But that's a very vague guess, and alchemists who think they know how human transmutation works end up dead a lot."

"That does sound difficult to work with."

"Yeah. We're chipping away at it, though."

"Slowly."

"We're immortal. We'll get there eventually."

Shoulder bump.

She leans on her sister, smiling.

"Last I checked, most of us weren't properly immortal..." Ani says.

"We earned it."

She nods. "I believe that."

"Is your system shareable?"

"Alchemy is learnable. The immortality thing is different, you'd have to talk to your Truth and we don't recommend doing that if you don't have to."

"If you know enough medical alchemy you can just indefinitely keep yourself from dying, probably, though it's possible your soul will eventually reject your body - but understanding your own body's different from manipulating others, and instilling 'won't die of old age with no further maintenance' requires manipulation on a genetic level which I'm not quite good enough at yet."

"Alas for the sad fate of mortals."

Snort. "We're really quite a mess. But we're striving to fix that, every day."

Kiss!

Kiss!!! (Best sister.)

Naraka watches curiously. Then: "Do you guys want to head back to Ellayania's world?" she asks. "Let everyone know we found Elesse and a bunch of the rest of us, too."

"Let me just grab a couple transport arrays..."

"I can also just make a portal and leave it open a little bit."

"It'll be easier to modify them if we have some there to work against."

She nods. "Alright. That does make sense."

And El can fetch those quick enough, ducking back into her study.

Naraka opens the shimmering black portal back to Ellayania's world with a little flourish when she returns. "I'll go through last, to make sure it stays stable," she says. (Important, when they have quite the crowd to get through.)

Elesse goes first with Anakin.