Hello!  We've been discussing other candidates for early resurrection; I'll go over the notes with you later.

Awesome. Has the One made any progress on making it less, uh, abhorrent?

Not on a noticeable scale.  But even Ashley should be pretty much adjusted by tomorrow so, y'know, it's nothing long-term debilitating anyways.

Oh good. I should probably check in on her. Also I promised to take Cricket to a zoo, I should do that before I get too swamped.

She'll write you tomorrow afternoon; you can let her be until then.  And be sure to show zoo pictures to Fireheart.

Okay.

Any more excavation inquisition?

Do you psychically know a good name for the cavern settlement?

I have one guess at what you might go for but no suggestions.

Fair enough. Is there anyone I should talk to while I'm up here?

You could ask the One about cat uplift lady if you want?  A bunch of other people were going to talk to you but I headed them off since it was just about resurrections and it's more efficient to compile a list of them you're welcome.  Or I could offer your present!  Super unfortunately though, if you figure out what it is you can't have it, and I don't know whether or not you'd want it.

...can you tell other people and triangulate a good guess about it that way? And, yes, thank you for the list.

Sure, I'll try that too.  But do you want to hear the pitch?  I'm not big enough to compose poetry on the spot but I'm psychic enough to do it in advance.  Though it does assume a little less conversational preamble than ended up happening.

Go ahead and pitch me.

Hi and a salutation, too
sent from this constellation to
the one who builds utopia from scratch
and for the revelation who (it's you)
could call on me and maybe use a universal physics patch

Your origin's in one sense golden, though
the patterns it was told in show
that the proposition gifted should appeal
but if the lights your star was holdin' glow:
fixed in your twilit home is the reveal

The offer's this: to grow in your ability,
to introduce a novel vulnerability,
and join the shadows laid here on the green.
multiply your greatest capability
but keep the second third and so on from repeating in the scene

And since if I omitted it I'd be remiss, I'll
mention neither up nor downside warrant your dismissal

- Sorry, which constellation are you proporting to be sending something from?

Why, Felicity,

This one.

If you say so.

...how cryptic. I don't love the sound of 'novel vulnerability'?

I can at least say that I don't already see anything on track to take advantage of said vulnerability.  It could well end up totally fine.

But if it doesn't, sucks to be me?

. . . Approximately.

You're not giving me much to go on here. Can I have Felicity transcribe the poem and think on it for a bit?

Oh, I already did.