- snort. "I like being booked out for a month! Steady work, no hassle, no unpredictability. Just lots of Osirian families on pilgrimage."

"Is it fun work? Wait, you don't care about fun. Is it, uh, rewarding and fulfilling work."

"It is! Aktun is beautiful. All the tourists returning seem so much healthier than when they left."

"Does it have a healing aura?"

"Nah, it's - deeper than that, it's about believing in the thing you're supposed to aspire to."

"Huh. It's that nice? I guess if it weren't then the tourism wouldn't be so big."

"It's really nice. I don't know how much of that is that everyone is Lawful and not evil and how much is just that they have more time, they won't starve...some of both, presumably, but it's really nice."

"I'll take a tremendous lot of notes on Nirvana for you."

"Thanks. I hear good things. Though I bet it doesn't have trolleys like Aktun."

"Maybe it does, how would you know?"

"I think you need Law for trolleys. It's just how the universe works."

"Just because you said that I'm gonna build a trolley in Elysium."

"Correction, you need Law for running trolleys, Elysium has many many spite-trolleys none of which move people from stop to stop on a schedule for a fare."

"Well of course it won't do that, why would I want it to do that."

"I abstractly imagine that there are people who would enjoy running trolleys on a schedule for a fee but I am not myself among them."

"I mean, they don't do it out of the goodness of their hearts, they get rich."

"What's even the point of getting rich if you no longer need to eat or sleep."

"Many of them eat anyway! Recreationally. And have apartments even though they do not need to sleep in them. And go to theatres and want magic items and take the trolleys and do all the other things that people do that require money."

"Seems kind of - tragic."

"It really isn't."

"I don't think it's tragic but it does seem... I don't know, I'd get used to it if I woke up in Axis and was stuck there, but I would have to be stuck there."

The baby fusses. Hagan hands him back to his mother. "Anyway, if you can't squeeze us in know anyone who can?"

"I'll ask around at work. Some people take more days off than I do."

"..do you not take any days off."

"I only teach classes Oathdays and Sundays. I do the Plane Shifts every day but that's, what, two minutes of work, it'd be ridiculous not to."