"Thanks," he says. "...I still wanna learn it though."

"You get all the stuff you need to try it when you get any spell," Nika assures him.

He brightens. "Oh good!"

"...if I use the most powerful perception speedup song we have and don't sleep or take breaks I could do one in three weeks. Two in six."

"Well don't start right now, there might be other stuff you should do first."

"Yeah, there probably are. Three teleports isn't that much better than one when you guys aren't even indestructible."

"What part do the necklaces play in this, anyway?"

"Give you an eidetic memory so you can remember the symbols."

"Oh, like Uncle Simon?" Pause. "...Nika, do we want to give all these spells to Uncle Simon?"

"I thought of that but... I don't think if there were a reason not to give Uncle Simon spells we'd know about that."

"...Da or Mama would know, though, probably. We can ask Mama when she gets here."

"Yeah."

"She said she'd be here in two hours but I forgot to check what time it was exactly when she said that..."

"Well, that's not too long, anyway."

"Uncle Simon already has an eidetic memory? ...you also don't want to give the spells to people who can themselves give them out, if anyone in this world has telepathy like mine that's another thing to be careful of..."

"No, there's no telepathy but Uncle Simon who is our uncle not yours has an eidetic memory from a chip in his brain."

"Huh. Can anyone get the chip, that'd be really useful -"

"No it didn't work for most people who tried it he was really lucky to be okay after."

"Ugh. Okay. What else do you want to know before the grownups show up -"

"There aren't any more of Miles that you know about?"

"Don't think so and can't check from here. - well, I could make a Maitimo and they'd know but that seems like a bit much, really."

"...I thought you couldn't make people."

"Space Elves keep their brains on a computer chip so I can make them. I shouldn't for no good reason, though."

"Oh is that how all those people got put back - you didn't say -"

"Yeah someone figured out it should work in principle and then secretly got it working."