"Is she your friend too?" Is this a 'computer games are fun' or real 'computers are cool', he doesn't ask.

"Junia? She okay, she five years older than me though."

"Well maybe I'd like to meet her. Not many people here think computers are cool, more like they're confusing but useful."

"Could, I guess, after people finding me, Junia knowing all about stuff."

"Hmm. Otherworldly computers probably work differently. The Lost technology I've been able to scrounge is strange already. Should be interesting."

Back to scribbling.

"Did having an Earth here?"

"The old stories say so. Probably a safe bet if Earth is multiversally common."

"Is yeah."

"Will your mother be able to fix the Stargate, you think? ...Did I already ask that, I have trouble keeping track sometimes."

"Yeah probably doesn't sound too complicated for wishing."

"Wish magic? What makes things too complicated for that?"

"Being magic already, sometimes. Or very big."

"Big like galaxies or big like gods?"

"Gods very magic. Galaxies big, galaxy needing big wish."

"Do tell me if my curiosity becomes an irritation. I like having a sense for things. How does a wish get a size?"

"Wishcoins exponentiate. And having more corners when bigger."

"Three would presumably be a minimum. What's the exponentiation ratio? Two, ten? Do high numbers become circles?"

"Ten and dunno, pointiest coin only ten corners."

"I can see why galaxies aren't a problem for big enough wishes. Orders of magnitude bigger than three are hard to even conceptualize properly."

"Am too little to be carrying wishcoins," sighs Pen. "Soon triangles and squares."

"Yeah, too bad. Is the brainphone given to lots of people where you're from? ...Is there any way to get a door to that in-between place?"

"Not too many people my world, in Samaria magic a secret mostly. Doors to Milliways sometimes happen at regular doors. Some people get them on purpose, mostly is random and not very much."

"Something to try at least, open doors, aim for Milliways. Are there non-secrecy reasons not to give out brainphone? You can't give it to everybody, that'd take years, but if enough people in enough places have it things would probably be safer and easier in some ways."

"Oh in worlds where everybody knowing stuff lots people have."

"Aha. The thing it would be really good for is air traffic control, weather warning, and maybe arranging trade. Radios are our best way of talking to people far away, but they can break, and storms block them sometimes too."