"The multiverse'd be happy to have them - actually, I bet Mîr'd be best equipped for it, human population from around the same time period and fairly arbitrary magic."

"I bet if nothing else Patalon can be wished up into a particularly efficient virtuality site or something."

"And we can get some more Fëanors on persistent psionic effects, and - if we rain immortality down on more people will that encourage mages to pick it up or make them decide they'll be priced out of the market -"

"Mages don't do immortality qua immortality, they do de-aging. I'm not sure what the market effect would be but they'd probably have some takers for cosmetic reasons still..."

"Vanda Nossëo'll send you a resource list and you can decide what to do with it."

"Is Maitimë going to want to help or does that take longer -?"

"That part comes in first, usually, actually."

"Okay. Good. I could figure it out myself but - rather not."

"And it'll be good for her."

"Good."

"Thank you for being patient with her."

"Of course."

Vanda Nosseo sends their resource list with a note that the Earth chronologically closest to theirs is Cube's and Maitimë should be told that Matirin gave his Bell the whole planet.

...why specifically should Maitimë be told that?

Maitimë will be tempted to do nothing much  both because she expects that if this isn't real she will be nudged into being more interesting and because she will expect she can get a longer reprieve by testing its limits less. Conditional on it being real she would prefer to be nudged into doing things.

But how does reporting to her that Butterfly received Cube as a present do that.

Being nudged to give her Bell the best presents is a constructive sort of nudge.

Okay.

Isabella explains to Maitimë's family where she vanished to and apologizes for not leaving a note. She sits with Boots and her sleeping Maitimë to find out what all the associations are; Boots can't necessarily find all of them by description alone but she can find about half, and Isabella can tell which ones, so that'll cut down on how long Maitimë will have to be awake-and-not-yet-all-fixed -

- and then when Boots is out of things that can be done with a sleeping patient, Boots wakes her up.

...there are two of Isabella and she doesn't know what the game is there - guess which one is real? But neither would be real - or maybe Maira found a way to insert herself into the dreams - one of the Isabellas has long hair maybe Maitimë gets to choose the real Isabella or a sub Isabella that'd seem like a game that would entertain Maira - the last hallucination was so good, the last hallucination had the premise she could die, this one is practically guaranteed not to have such a lovely premise -

"Hi lovely," says Standard Issue Isabella. (Boots was able to find that one, she can call her that again without getting a flinch -) "This is an alternate universe version of me with different more freeform mental powers and an actual therapy license. You did say I could wake you up if I could fix it - she's at the limit of what she can do while you're asleep."

"- what's she doing -"

"Keeping you from freaking out about being awake, at the moment. Sibyl - uh, that's the disambiguating nickname your Bell picked - precogged a few things I usually need to talk to patients to find, but that was only enough to let me actually locate about half the associations that need pinching off, and also my method for preventing panic attacks does require me to induce one and follow it home, as it were."

"...okay."

"There's alternate universe versions of you too and she's worked on them and they have been supplying advice."

"...it happened to them too -"