"Well, no. But we should know whether my kind of Elf can learn it and if we can we should know whether they fork with the ability and so I ought to give it a try."

"I'm also happy to."

"Sorry, I had you down as 'already has some kind of project' but maybe you stopped having one when I was distracted." Books for chip Elves.

"Same, except the question of interest is whether the ability shares across bodies."

"Do we have consensus on letting Anaander be a million wizards?"

"I have a couple of concerns though honestly a low-level wizard can't do that much more murder than a civilian with a weapon and impunity."

"A high-level wizard, though?"

"A million high-level wizards would be pretty bad news."

"And if she can treat a body as expendable she can be pretty efficient about risk-seeking."

"I vote no though I observe it'll be real hard to keep from her in the long term."

"Should I be wizards?"

"I think so."

"We need to be very sure the Presger can't get it out of you."

"It can't!"

"How do you know?"

"It tried and I was very mad at it but it didn't work."

"And you're sure it won't get better at trying?"

"I was very, very mad. I do not think it will try again."

- nod.

Rubelite accepts her copies of the books.

"Great. So you can all learn some magic, and we'll try the resurrections."

"...I'll take some books too, I might drop it when I can go back to my people but I'm not doing much right now."

The lot of them settle in to learn wizardry.

Belmarniss answers clarifying questions, mostly from Rubelite.

Some people scry for the long-lost Elves and Dwarves. Most of these scries fail. One of them does not.