"No, I don't mean, are they forced, I mean is that how it works, they go from place to place and carry the message one message at a time? Is Celestial the language here?"

The messages arrive at their intended destination even if the angels do not carry them the whole way, if they are written. A spoken message would need to be spoken by an angel. When there is no one attempting to align a situation with Chaos, the Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia will guide any material object from the sender to the recipient.

"How long does it take an angel, or the Kingdoms, to carry a letter a long way?"

The Kingdoms will deliver a message in- the average of the times that the sender and recipient expect the letter to arrive in. The angels will deliver a letter based on how far apart the two points are, so if they are very near, on the scale of 30 kilometers, it can take one minute. If they are very far...well, it is an infinite plane. I recommend constraining your search for citizens to a certain radius from points of interest to you.

"How fast do people expect messages to arrive? - do you think I could charge my pocket everything by expecting it to be charged?"

The Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia are affected by the combined weight of beliefs from people on Prime worlds, within Arcadia itself, and, to a lesser degree, the beliefs of those on other Outer Planes- Zienni wishes to contribute.

"I've never even heard of a pocket everything! What we should do is teach people here what they are so that they'll believe that Arcadia should be able to charge it- Arcadia is a place that makes societies work for people, and the internet and pocket everythings seem important for Amentan society. Or maybe Anitami society? Is Anitam more advanced than other countries?"

"Anitam is not especially more advanced than other countries, I think all Amentan countries have pocket everythings. And yes they're very important."

"What do you know about how they operate? The way 'internet' translates, it seems like it would need a lot of infrastructure, which Arcadia excels at supporting."

Are these questions better asked of people besides yourself, Lintalai? Zienni can be over-enthusiastic, but perhaps first we should focus on establishing your government, and then we may worry about building infrastructure.

"Oh, yeah, sorry. You're just a kid, I shouldn't be pinning a technological revolution on your shoulders. You probably have engineers at home."

"We do have engineers at home but they aren't here. I know a little bit of programming but not much engineering..."

"Okay! Let me try to think of an order- would you need the internet before the pocket everything, or is the pocket everything still useful without it? Would you want the internet to tell people about your kingdom? We should take you to some of the other kingdoms so you can form alliances with just the ones you like, and pick a spot to found your kingdom based on that."

"The pocket everything is still useful without the internet. - well, mine is, but a new one wouldn't have any apps on it if it couldn't download them. The internet would be very useful for telling people about my kingdom."

"Do you think you know enough about the internet to explain why it's so useful? If we can convince enough people to believe just how useful it is...we might get somewhere."

"The internet is really important! You can get music off it, and directions, and do your shopping, and play games, and talk to people, and watch movies, and read books. Even without the internet as long as you get the apps in the first place a pocket everything can be a calculator and a camera and store notes and record sound and video and do translation between languages that are programmed in."

"Oh wow, that's so many things! Only the calculations and the talking parts really came through with the word when Intrepid told me it. Okay. If you could make the pocket everything get charged, could you program in a language from here? You said you can program a little...what is programming? Sorry, that's so many questions. Maybe the most important question is- how does it get charged?"

"I don't know how to add a language, that's not very basic, but maybe I could figure it out. I do know how to add a new alphabet. Programming is teaching a computer - a pocket everything is a kind of computer - to do things. It gets charged by plugging into the wall, which has electrical outlets, but maybe I can just expect it to charge while I sleep, or it could be very gently zapped by just the right amount of lightning and that could work magically?"

"Huh! Some spellcasters- oh, alright. Intrepid thinks he knows something but he doesn't want to interrupt me. Go ahead, Intrepid."

I have only just realized the possibilities, here, Lintalai, but you have a unique advantage as concerns your capabilities and those of your pocket everything. If you can expect strongly enough that they, and you, will operate in the manner most advantageous for Arcadia and its inhabitants, they will likely do so. No one here has any prior beliefs about pocket everythings, or the internet, or what plant aliens such as yourself can do.

"...well," she says, "I expect everywhere I go to have internet service. It usually does." She checks her everything again.

Her pocket everything works exactly as the only person with clear expectations of its limitations and capabilities expects it to.

Lintalai has internet service.

Does she have enough of it that she can EMAIL HER DADS.

It appears that she does!

"I can email my dads! I'll do that and see what they say."

She starts composing her explanatory email.

At some point in the middle she notices that her everything, now with internet service and syncing to the time in Lina, now thinks it's still early morning. About the same time it would have been when she walked into school.

"...they might not get it for a while though."