"'Small' is not really one of my top ten complaints about this place. I guess if you like exploring it might be."

"I just don't like being able to see all the edges of the world. I know I can leave, but still."

"I guess that makes sense. I hope the pegasus is okay. ...I guess we need to decide whether the pegasus is staying or getting paused while the mind control Imrainai is here."

"What's a pegasus?"

"It's a horse with wings. And person-level intelligence. Elizabeth made one to see if she could make people, and, uh, now we have a pegasus, I guess. It's Connor's responsibility but someone else should really make sure it's okay if he's going to leave while the other Imrainai is here."

"We could look after it, yeah."

"Okay. I hope it's okay. It's probably kind of confused."

"You'll have to show me where we're going."

" - to the pegasus? I think they said it wasn't ready to meet us yet."

"Oh. Okay. That might complicate looking after it but I guess we'll manage."

"Yeah. They were hoping it could look after itself, but... I don't think anybody actually knows much about what day-old magically created pegasi are like."

"I'm worried that people here might be underresourced for all of their goals. Or something."

"Oh, yeah, I think we definitely are. But - oh, we might have forgotten to tell you about Elizabeth? Elizabeth has a spellbook that keeps giving her incredibly powerful new spells. I think she gets a new one every day. So - I think the idea is that Elizabeth hangs out and keeps getting spells, and then eventually she can fix a lot of the problems that she's run into."

"Okay. That makes sense. I continue to think we should maybe take over the planet I was on for everyone who wants more space than this place has. Including the pegasus."

"I guess we could ask the pegasus about this when it's ready to meet us. I think most of the complicated things about using your planet have to do with, like, how we can pause time. I think worlds are paused as long as someone from them is in the demiplane. So, like, I shouldn't leave for very long, because it'll unpause my world when I do. - I really should have thought more about that before I agreed to go get you and the other Imrainai."

"Can they get someone else from your world to pause it while you're out doing stuff?"

"Probably?"

"Seems way better than being stuck here all the time."

"I dunno. This place has people. And books. And occasionally things that need doing."

"Oh I guess that's fair if you're any good with those sorts of things."

"...I guess I don't know that I am."

"Well, can you read."

"...well, yeah. Most of the books are in languages I can't read, though. I can read a little bit of the Latin."

“I can’t read stuff unless it’s in a special alphabet my dad designed for me, so you’re gonna be more useful on that front.”

Nodnod. "Okay. But, uh, I think the books are not really for solving problems, I think they were mostly to thank Connor's dad for helping."