"Playing the song? My computer hooks up to this little speaker in my pendant, it's not great sound quality but I dunno if Amina wants big hi-fi installations in here."

"It's amazing."

"Oh, yeah, he's really something. What've you got? You're his alt, it's probably cool."

He is transfixed. 

"I mean, I'm not bad, but I wouldn't have thought of half that. ...I guess someday I would've but I bet it'd be long after I died."

"Sure, he's thousands of years old, he's an Elf."

"Damn. Well, I'm not an Elf, but I can show you stuff anyway if you want."

"I want!"

Then he can perform some of his more impressive music! He is not as good as the thousands of years old Elf. As he's very good for a human he's never had occasion to be sad about this before.

Amriac is reasonably entertained anyway and accompanies him on various random instruments that rather start to accumulate on Amina's floor, practicing reading along with the sheet music. Eventually she settles on electric cello and finishes out the piece on that.

That's amazing. He wants to hear more. Of...all those things, actually. Maybe he can sing and play some more.

Amina suggests things, on the grounds that her taste may be predictive, and they can all have a delightfully musical time.

Alternate universe versions of other people are great. (Alternate universe versions of yourself are upsetting.)

"Abadar says that resurrection spells won't work on people who aren't from the local soul system. He doesn't know what we'll be able to do with Miracle and a body, it might depend on what kind of soul their universe has."

"Okay, so, trial resurrect every kind of person twice - put in a query about that in the letter to Promise -" says Belmarniss, flipping through her notebook, "ask her if she'll do gates for the dimensional port dealie, what else is pending - trying to find that one bridge world of Cor's so he can get back to his colony and maybe move it somewhere else, I guess?"

"Mmhm, letter's almost done."

"Is there a good place to put it? It's not like the place it is now is awful, we're on, like, a separate continent."

"If you're going to move it better to do it before you're too dug in, yeah?"

"Yeah but I'm not going to uproot nearly a billion people from a perfectly good continent because I don't want to share a planet with my ex, I'm not twelve. It'd have to be a nicer place."

"Amentans are gonna want unoccupied planets in their universe. There are unoccupied planets here - you'd probably have our afterlives, which only arguably beat not having afterlives -"

"Plus our kind of magic doesn't work here, and it's one thing to have to cut way down on it and be out my chicken recipe and another thing to not have it even for emergencies. I suppose if I'm going to have that as a criterion I ought to bop around everywhere to check. Maybe there's a usable planet in our original world, or the one the empty planet's in, or a daeva can make one in one of those worlds."

"You could find someone to do that, yeah."

"Kind of feel like the afterlife thing should get more weight but maybe we're hoping we'll be able to fix that ourselves eventually no matter what the local universe has to say about it."

"Is there a good afterlife solution on the table, though. Yours is - as you pointed out - probably better than nonexistence but not by a very motivating amount."

"It'd be better if resurrection worked on old age - oh, that's another thing we should try, can you resurrect someone dead of old age if you have a young body on hand for them or is that still not allowed - and if you had good throughput on resurrection. Without that not so much."

"I mean, most of the afterlives beat not existing."