Then she will have an armful of small demon. "I'm stuck and I can't go home."

Hug.

"I'm very sorry to hear that," she says. "You're welcome to stay with us as long as you need."

"I don't need stuff but I need a Bell around to talk me out of doing stupid things. And hugs are nice."

"I'm a Bell. Apparently."

"Good thing you have a lot of practice at that."

"Mama!" says Miles indignantly.

Cordelia smiles. "Anyway. I would be very happy to help you improve the galaxy with your magical powers."

Flap flap. "Good! I can cure death but only one person at a time and I can't resurrect anyone until my family finds me, I can do pretty much all other stuff. I was saying to Nika that I might be able to stop all the wars just by telling everyone that I am here and that if anyone starts a war I will help the other side win it but sometimes wars are more complicated than that."

"Yes, sometimes they are," Cordelia agrees. "I think it would be a good idea to start with something other than war. Do you have technological advances from other universes that our engineers could look at?"

"Yeah probably. It won't be a strict improvement but it'd surprise me if we haven't got anything you don't - and there's lightleapers for sure -"

"They go anywhere in exactly five days!"

"That will be very useful."

"It's probably not exactly five of your days. But yeah."

"Every planet in the galaxy has a different day length, so we use Earth's as a standard when we need one. But even something that could go anywhere in exactly ten standard days would - change a lot about how the galaxy worked, and more for the better than otherwise."

"Goody. Much easier to give out than the teleport."

"The teleport needs eidetic memory and there's a safe way to do that but it takes weeks per person."

"And you should find out if there's a reason we shouldn't give it to Uncle Simon," says Miles.

"What sorts of reasons might there be? I expect he would use it very responsibly."

"I don't think there is one I just think if there was I wouldn't know."

"I would know," says Cordelia. "And I'll make sure of it, and then you can give the teleport to Simon."

"And I want it but mostly because there's a healing spell too and I could use it on myself," says Miles.

"...How good is this healing spell?"

"Dunno exactly."

"Really really good. Why?"

"I'm wondering if it could help Miles to have it used on him even before he gets a copy."

"I dunno but I don't think so."

"Do you think it's worth trying?"

"...yeah maybe."

Tap!

Miles wobbles and almost falls over before his mother catches him. "Huh!" he says. "I dunno what that did but it was good!" He smiles at Epic. "Thanks!"

"We'll find out the details next time you see the doctor," says Cordelia.

"Thanks!" Nika says to Epic.

"Sure! I'll read the grace one for you, sorry I never got to it..."

"It's okay, I can get around on Magic." She pats her horse.

"Most of my alts can ride, I guess I should learn."