"Tons. Some closer to humans than others. Quendi are pretty close - the major differences are that if we swear something we can't break our word and we live forever and we age slower and we die of lots of things that don't kill humans - like slavery, wouldn't work at all - and we need things to be pretty and we sing a lot."

"Being a slave would just automatically be fatal somehow?"

"Being confined or imprisoned kills us. Not instantly but within a month or so, depending how badly confined."

"Huh.

Well, I'm not tired anymore but I could really use some dinner."

"Do you have favorites or should I make you Boots' favorites."

"...I am curious about Boots's favorites. Why is she called that?"

"There are a lot of them named Isabella so she had to pick a nickname and when she first arrived in Telperion she made herself magic boots that fixed her clumsiness and that she couldn't have made at home because her home world is mean."

"Mean?"

"It kills people if they get too much hubris and Bells kind of have a lot so she had to unlearn it and be a therapist. There was a me but he's dead because of hubris. And experimenting. The world also hates experimenting."

"How does a world hate things? Do most worlds have opinions?"

"No, just Materia - that's Boots' world - unless you count the gods in Ardas, but they mostly let us be."

"What are Ardas?"

"Some kinds of worlds happen over and over, and Ardas are one of those. Telperion's one. If nothing happens to them then they're horrible forever pretty much and if you land early enough you can save them without much drama and if you land late enough it's a horrible war."

"...'you' being 'Bells'?"

"One time it was Elspeth and one time someone from an Arda landed on a Bell but usually, yeah."

"Who's Elspeth?"

"Golden's daughter. She's the only Bell to have a kid so far."

"Except you?"

"I'm adopted, it's sort of different."

"I suppose. ...Were you going to make some food?"

Here are all of Boots' favorites from Tirion.

Yum.

"...none of your magic has a usage limit?"

"Nope. Uh, mana recharges and won't recharge here but none of the stuff I've told you about has any limits at all. Well, I can't make stuff that's much farther away from me than your sun is from here, but that's really far, and I can't make stuff arbitrarily fast but the limit on that's really big, too."

"I meant in terms of running out of ability to do it, not in terms of how fast you can do it." Nom. "What does mana do?"

"All kinds of things. Wizardry is Materia's kind of magic and I invented an interdimensional teleport with it and it's how Boots made her Boots and it's how crystal balls are made - we use them to talk between universes - and you can fly with it and stuff."