"It's 'heads up Toyal'."

"Thank you." He puts the mirror away.

"The take of what?" asks the daevologist, writing down the label. "Also, uh, what did he say, I don't speak Lagalann very well."

"His mail label is 'heads up Toyal'. He seemed to be recording a video when I was there earlier, I didn't ask about it."

"Can you spell that?"

He stares off into space for a moment. "T-o-y-a-l."

Write write. "Thanks. I have one too, since there's demons in the lab, it's 'attn Prof Keino'."

"And you'd like me to give that to the others?"

"Yeah!"

"All right. Is there anything else while I'm here?"

"Do you hear your name only when people are trying to say your name or also when people make the same phonemes incidentally?"

"The former, though in some cases it'll count retroactively if they realize."

"Do you ever encode messages in how many times people say your name or at what interval or how long they take about saying it?"

"No, saying my name doesn't get enough of my attention for that to work if it doesn't work the first time. And praying silently works fine. One more."

"Is there a technical definition of 'prayer'?"

"Not that doesn't refer to concepts you don't have. Intending us to hear it is the most important part."

"How many threads of attention do you have?"

"Eighteen." And he goes.

"Why eighteen," cries Professor Keino as he departs.

He will just have to ask Boccob's clerics, when Pelor is done visiting the other favored and brings the mirrors to them. (It correlates with how powerful a god is; the practical maximum seems to be twenty but they believe the theoretical maximum is slightly higher.)

When he has visited the next two favored souls of Boccob's they all swap contact information and are soon merrily conjuring each other's spell lists and ideas for things to try. (The other human mostly studies fairies and parlor tricks but can sign up for a conjured mail account.)

Ehlonna, meanwhile, has been spotted all over Earth - adjusting the plant ratios here, supplementing the shrew population there, stopping in to suggest to the workers at a feeding station that they make a minor adjustment to the meat they're offering their predators, and the day after Pelor talks to the favored souls, she's spotted lounging on the back of the matriarch of one of the elephant herds.

"Morning Upendi - wh- why are you on that elephant - who are you -"

"I'm Ehlonna! Upendi was telling me about how her family is doing - very well, it sounds like."

"...you can understand her? We've got them pointing to pictures but -"