[Did you have company on your island?]

[Sometimes - I couldn't really become close friends though, since, emotional changes couldn't happen much.]

[Emotional changes couldn't happen?]

[Not really - unless there were changes in what stories people told about you, though I don't think changes always happened even then.]

[Scale of one to ten how feasible is evacuating the spirit world?]

[...Three? You would need to make a way out - which I bet the Spring can do - and then deal with all the different spirits being all sorts of powerful but it wouldn't be impossible...]

[Also I think I really like you.]

[Thanks! There's a lot of ifs between me and actually accomplishing this but it should go on the to-do list.] She starts a to-do list on the phone.

[It's a very good goal to have.]

[It sounds like a lousy place to be! How many spirits are there?]

[I'm going to guess hundreds of thousand but I really have no idea.]

[Do all spirits have the same approximate power level or just the ones called as champions?]

[Hard to tell but I think there's more variety in spirits in general than in champions?]

[Do the others ever get to come out of there?]

[Not that I know of - there might be spells for it.]

[And there's another world, right?]

[Yeah I don't know much about it except that monsters show up from it sometimes. As far as I can tell the monsters have a very unpleasant time when they are on Earth and I think might have a better time in the underplane but I'm not sure. They also tend to be very destructive on Earth.]

[Do you know who'd know more?]

[Probably a mage from an old family?]

[Are all those families involved in this nonsense or are there conscientious objectors?]

[I havn't known any but they can vary - that old lady seemed terrible but she willing to trade which basically never happens, I think.]

[Trade for me to murder a guy!]

[Yes she might be varying in a worse direction, I think. Maybe. A lot of mages are pretty bad.]

[Any idea why?]

[Mage families tend to be really bad and it's hard for anything to stop them from being bad?]

[I think that's also true as far as it goes about, like, royal families, but they became increasingly irrelevant... I guess the thing where nobody can notice that a magical family has anything special going on interferes.]