"Let's say yes but the peal inevitably finds all the worlds you find when you find 'em."

"I think giving away any necklaces while our own people are dying is going to be a hard sell, possible in the case of places like Beach where you're dying faster than we are. I think once our own people aren't dying we can give away all of the necklaces, but probably not to Vanda Nossëo; handing them out to our own neighbors would be a perfectly adequate thing to do with them."

"Can you slot into their distribution protocol or would you want to handle that separately?"

"If their distribution protocol isn't stupid and if it doesn't come with pealish strings attached that'd be fine."

"Pealish strings?"

"...dismantle your government so we can execute you if we decide we feel like it? Boyfriend-kidnapping?"

"Let us assume that no such things will attach to funneling necklaces into peal distribution protocols."

"I mean 'are they likely to make that a criteria for necklace distribution, explicitly or implicitly by kicking worlds down the priority list' -"

"- oh, I'd misunderstood - They usually don't investigate worlds very closely if they're 'boring', certainly not on the level of caring who people's boyfriends are, and already checked your neighborhood for 'interesting'; if something's bothering them it'll kick a world up the priority list, possibly including governmental dismantling though."

"Then once our people stop dying they can have the necklaces for existing projects."

"I think I can talk Gem into it."

"I would appreciate it tremendously."

Happy wingflap. "Anything else we should talk about before I pop off?"

"I will confess myself terribly curious how you escaped."

"Turns out the invention of writing hacks Beach magic like crazy."

"Oh, nice. My father invented writing, you should go teach him your language and share writing-invention stories."

"I've been advised not to talk to your father."

"They're not letting him have visitors?"

"That's not it, they just think we wouldn't get along."

"...my father doesn't get along with the peal because they reembodied him conditional on constant supervision and haven't given him the healing spell or a means to leave. You didn't do that, so unless you're planning on explaining to him how that was totally the right thing to do you'd get along fine with him."

"No, I would totally rather talk about inventing writing. Maybe the advice wasn't very good."

"In my experience the peal has fairly mediocre judgment."

...giggle.

"...possible it's not the fault of the template, I haven't seen any of them acquit themselves well but I am sure it is at least conceivable."

Flap flap.