"Okay!" He will spend a lot of time considering which book to get.

"I'm also not sure that random stores offer delivery so we'd be limited by carrying capacity anyway."

"We could make a spell for it."

"Yes, but not right here standing in the bookshop."

Sad tiny child manages to pick two books. By reading two others so he doesn't absolutely have to pick them.

Bella buys the two books for him. "I'm sure your double has books. And will buy you books."

"Probably. - I like it okay here."

"I'm glad."

"Where's your house?"

"Apartment. It's this way, across the canal. I have not been decorating much because at the time I was routinely sleeping there my priority was saving up for a plane shift - thank goodness I hadn't gotten enough gold together for that, I'd figured as long as I was back in my planar cluster I might as well see my parents again but imagine if that had worked."

"Materia might've squished you!"

"Yup. I could probably have sold enough stuff on day one if I'd shopped around hard enough for buyers, I was close if I'd unloaded all the jewelry and hadn't tried getting anyone interested in my watch, but I'm glad I decided to decompress and set up a therapy practice and stuff instead."

"What are we doing now? First, I mean?""

"Reinvent rings of protection. Then look for a place to live, we'll want very fancy scrying."

"Maybe with the money from inventing stuff we can make the whole city prettier."

"I guess the fancy scrying might take long enough for you to find a good way to spend your cut on urban beautification."

"And probably they'll be nicer when their city is prettier."

"I wouldn't bet on it. Maybe they'd do less graffiti but I actually haven't seen any as it is."

"They'll just feel more relaxed and happier and things, I would expect. In the palace people seem more relaxed and happy."

"In the palace most people are rich or at least stably employed and bought into the system."

"And the people here aren't?"

"Fewer of them are."

"I feel like there are a lot of things going on here that I don't understand."

"Yeah, I think planes like this are more complicated than Valinor in a lot of ways, maybe just because it's - older? Or the civilization is anyway."

"I guess. 

I wanna meet the rest of the people who are the kids I have in this universe."