"...I don't know, but like, separately, I don't plan to let you die of old age? And even if we got separated long enough that you did I'd bring you back." 

"Oh. Okay. Xander, if you die try to leave a corpse."

"Noted."

"My light may not scale well enough to cover billions of people yet, but I can certainly get the people I personally like." 

"I appreciate the endorsement."

?

"- school first or church first?"

"Uh, check the school first, if they're in session go to the church and try again later?"

"Sounds good." Off they go.

School is, thankfully, not in session. Lucy picks up a social studies textbook and starts skimming it. 

Isabella goes for science.

Xander grabs a little kids' book on All The Busy People Of Beaumont with cute cartoon animals.

Science is definitely more advanced here than in Isabella's 2006, but since this is a textbook for children who are likely to grow up to be farmers, it doesn't have that much more actual scientific detail than a 2006 high school textbook. The atom looks different; the structure of the cell is more detailed. 

"Whoakay, there's a reason they speak English here," Lucy says from her textbook. 

"Did they colonize this system from an Earth?"

"Yes. They call it Earth-that-Was and apparently it was evacuated. Whatever humanity fled to come here, they don't talk like they think it left any survivors there." 

"My guess would normally be "extra large kaiju" but they don't seem to have magical girls. I guess maybe magical girls would stop activating off of Earth even though I still work fine here? But this is probably overapplying my world's heuristics."

"Probably, but we can look it up when we get Cortex access. Apparently the evacuation was mostly headed by the States and China and it's only a coincidence that we haven't heard any Chinese yet..."

"I don't speak a word of Chinese. Any dialect of it."

"Neither do I. At least we speak the same language as each other and the other locally dominant language, but I do believe I'll put in the effort to pick some up." 

"I hear it's a difficult language but it may be worthwhile here, yeah."

"I'm good at languages. I don't know if it's a me thing or a Judgment thing or a Messenger thing, but I picked up Latin and Rubbery remarkably quickly. And the Correspondence uses ideograms too, and that's innate; I have vague memories of my mother teaching me to read and write English when I was very small and I had a hard time grasping the concept of a phonetic alphabet." 

"Then you can be our translator, I guess, if we need to go some Chinese-speaking area."

She salutes in agreement. "Yes ma'am. Translating for people is fine, it was never worth my time to actually focus on it but translating for Rubberies ever came up, their vocal apparatus can't entirely handle English and they're too low-status for many Londoners to bother learning their language."