"In that case - who's been in contact with the multiverse longest, what's the dimension with the most people and the dimension with the least and how rapidly are we turning up new ones and what are the bottlenecks there -"

"Space and Hex were the first deliberate interworld meeting. The others branched off from that except Boots and Epic and Scroll found Warp independently. Warp is most crowded, followed by Edda - we think, those are estimates - and the least is a Shadow neighbor with what appears to be a population of exactly four fused hivemind things two of whom are considering a merger, but if you don't count that it's an Edda neighbor with Stone Age humans who have a population of a few thousand and so far refuse to talk to any visitors. Uncontrolled worldleaping is now considered unsafe so we're only looking for worlds by parameter now and that slows us down, but it's still about one a month, mostly around Wish, and the bottleneck is how quickly we can feel reasonable about moving on from the typical new one having done some reasonable first-pass interventions and mined it for useful contents."

"How many of those know of the multiverse, how many are we actively involved in -"

"A majority of worlds have at least one or two natives who know at least a little about the multiverse because it's usually more accurate to supplement conjuration and reading with actually talking to somebody, but in most it's nothing approaching common knowledge. There's ongoing projects in or confederated status of polities in fifty-three."

Nod. "What do most of the Noldor do with their time -"

"Develop stuff. The ones who do music have to be in Flat Ardas, it doesn't work if composed outside of them, but Cam made them a dwarf planet in Elentári so they don't have to be on the usual one. And distribute things, and Elves are usually a first choice for getting and using wished-on powers if Gem doesn't find people from Wish to do it because on a population level they're very trustworthy."

"Most people are that sick of Arda? Not even just Valinor, the whole world?"

"Yours might be an exception since you're from early and didn't have the specific Valar failure mode of Telperion, but mostly the Noldor are very sick of the Valar. Which isn't entirely fair since I can make Valar much more reasonable but still inspires a lot of not-living-in-Ardas."

"What do they do -"

"Kicked Boots back to Materia because they panicked about her doing too much too quickly and inspiring Epic likewise. Be almost completely useless during standard trajectory wars for multiple centuries. Exhibit excess social conservatism and use that to decide who should be dead. Doom the entire Noldor over a fight for some boats, in standard trajectory." Elspeth comes with magical footnotes.

"Yikes. And here I was about to rule ours 'not actually that bad' - should I be convincing my people to come here, is there an efficiency loss having them all still situated in Valinor -"

"No need to move if they don't want to. Shine retains a lot of its Noldo population too - so does Telperion, the Boots incident mostly offended only people particularly close to her. And I've already swung by to explain incarnates to your set, it helps a lot."

"Oh good. Who all is a member of Vanda Nossëo -"

List!

"And what do they get -"

More list!

She's awake and smiling and interested in things!!!!

She totally is! She wants a tech summary next!

And by the time Elspeth has finished with that the teleport spell has also been conveyed!

Pop.

Pop. 

She hugs Isabella. "It helps a lot - just having that -"

Hug. "Good."

"Can we have the rest of the spells as well-"

"Do you need them fast? I was planning to be home in half an hour."

"No, we can look them up later - what do you do as Princess of the Golden Empire -"

"Public relations!"