Hug. "Is this going to be really hard on Sibyl, if it takes her a while -"

"An Elf while or a regular while?"

"Different answers?"

"Affects how busy she needs to be."

"Let's assume very busy."

"Deluge her in peal precog work and exotic cuisine, got it."

"Thank you."

"Of course."

"And I'll see what we can do so it's  a shorter while."

"Thanks."

"Love you."

"Love you too."

And he goes and talks with Dream.

She waits for Isabella to bring it up again.

She'll have a wait. She's suddenly very busy.

She appreciates that.

It's a few days past that when Iobel drops by to try out a spell to let Sibyl digest food faster - "and do you want to borrow Cricket? If he upsets people they can just turn their Allspeak off, he doesn't have it himself -"

So Sibyl cat-sits and goes around with a judgmental fluffball in her arms after Iobel has left.

Cricket is in the giant list of people and is recognized! "Oh, Iobel drop by?"

"Yep, she came up with something so I can process food faster. I still have to actually eat it all, it'll be nice for eclipses and other really magic-dense emergencies but not worth her coming and casting it on me for everyday, but it's pretty nice."

"Does it give you Ent-like metabolic capacity or would that be a separate problem -"

"I don't think so? It's hard to compare straight across when the Ents haven't picked up any skills, let alone ones that overlap with me, but I'm not outside human range on how much I can put away while thusly bespelled, just - more."

"Neat. ...we should see if psions can get something to click for unbound spirit animals, seems like the kind of thing they might be able to do in principle -"

"Yeah, when Iobel comes to take Cricket back she's bringing one of your alt's little cousins who has an unbound spirit animal and I'm going to see if I can telepath 'em, that being the obvious first pass, and if I can it can go on the list and if I can't I can spare a bit trying to stretch it."

"I hope it works! Hi, Cricket."