"I know. I'll still figure it out."

"… If you say so." He shrugs. "… Previous nullification didn't do anything, for the record."

"I know, but I'm better than my brother at this."

"… Okay. I guess." Pause. "I am going to be a little freaked out if you can."

She grins.

He sighs, and wraps his wings around himself a little bit.

More waiting, then.

"Did we ever figure – getting me a pocket-folding thing?"

"Oh, we need to buy you one of that, right."

"I don't think there were any other useful ideas… Nothing in mind that could, I dunno, multiply how my power works?"

"Multiply?"

"Help me affect a larger area, speed me up… somehow otherwise catalyze it? I don't know, I assume if there was something obvious it would've occurred already."

"Developing new spells is not obvious, no... but it's easiest when you have feelings about the subject matter. You're more likely to be able to come up with anything that could help you than anyone else."

"And presumably no extant obvious spells that would help with it, I mean?"

"None that I know of."

Nod.

Waiting!

They have been doing a lot of this!

"How long does it usually take, one of these meetings?"

"My first took a whole day but that was unusually long."

"More like a couple of hours, or…?"

"Usually a quarter to half a day."

"Ah. Might be here a while then."

"Yeah. Depends on how long ago he arrived and why he's even there in the first place."

"He?"

"Oh, it's Seymour in there."