"Is there any reason not to try using our magic to dispel it?"

It'll make talking to me much more difficult. I'm not aware of any other risk specifically associated with trying to alter your speed and don't know what if any side effects to expect from your magic's use in that capacity.

"Huh. Okay."

"Tentatively in favor of staying...sped up, if we're in fact sped up and if we can speed other people up too. There are a lot of bad things going on and this way we can act on them faster."

"Some of us will get old and die."

" - right, fair."

"What's the ratio of speed?"

A thousand to one, about.

"Harmony, we have a while to wait before a precaution we're taking is through. Is that all right?"

"They're having some kind of technical problem because of being sped up and want to wait before letting you look at one of them they seem to consider relatively expendable for reasons I don't fully understand," she tells Lohte.

"Okay. - if they want to check with a slave or something they can send them through if that gets them entangled, we can take care of them, they don't have to kill them."

"I don't have the impression she's a slave, just that her dying is not understood to be very bad if they do the technical thing they are having problems with and maybe even if they don't. She's going along with it. I can suggest it anyway if you like."

"Does she... want to die? ...they could at least have the option."

He's offering to take care of the person you're considering killing, instead.

"The deal with her is that she has millions of bodies in another dimension and only one was brought here. Usually they are all in contact frequently enough to remain a single entity but they aren't getting updates from this one. We're recording her memories for her so they can have the relevant information edited out and the rest of it could be sent back to the rest of her later. Also you might not want her even if she were interested."

Promise relays this a little incredulously.

"Does...this one... want to be dead?"

He wants to know if this one wants to be dead.

"Hasn't really expressed much preference one way or the other? Aside from pointing out we could do the space Elves."

Promise repeats that.

"Is it just me or is that a weird attitude to have about a person who is an alternate universe version of yourself? - that's not directed at them."

"I'm getting all this through relays and I'm sure I'm missing things."

Nod. "Well, uh, offer stands. Most humans don't like belonging to a fairy court but it's often regarded as better than death."

"He says the offer stands and most humans don't like belonging to a fairy court but it's often regarded as better than death."

Anaander appears intensely entertained by this.