"I hope the One gets on fixing the post-rez overwhelm pronto," Cam remarks to Felicity.

"I'm not actually sure to what extent that's its purview as opposed to just being a natural order sort of thing."

"Is it not poking the natural order?"

"That doesn't seem like it would be very natural?  Not that there's anything wrong with unnatural things, but star magic takes a very long time and quite possibly resurrection would just become the sort of thing that can happen, smoothly, before effort in that direction saw any results."

"...I'm not sure I have a definition of 'natural' that suits this assertion."

"It makes sense that English wouldn't have the concept.  It's the sort of thing I natively expect to change on its own over time rather than via intervention, is the main thing.  Including intervention from the One."

"I mean, I got that part, but why do things change on their own without intervention in this way?"

"I don't have much of a non-tautological answer to that.  It's the way things are, and when things change, the way things are also changes.  Just with a bit of delay."

"Huh. Well. I hope it changes fast. Should I go ahead and do the next batch now, do you reckon?"

"Does anyone else have any further questions or concerns," she says in several languages, and makes sure it gets passed along to those who don't understand any of them.

"Do the apartments lock?" Floor Guy wants to know.

"Yes but I can make keys if you become unresponsive for a weird amount of time or anything."

Someone else: "Where are the keys?  Is there anything stopping someone from taking a bunch of them?  Can we move apartments later if we decide we don't like our first one?"

"The keys to the receiving rooms don't currently exist, I can just make them if I need to, you can lock them from inside only. I am not going to insist that you continue to live in your first apartment forever. I do not especially have anything lined up to prevent people from taking the keys out of a dozen apartments, do I need anything like that?"

"Wouldn't . . . them not existing . . . prevent someone from stealing them?" asks one of the translation telephoners.

"The apartments and houses are currently unlocked, with keys to their locks inside. This place I made for you all to lie down in while you get used to being alive again has locks, that you can twiddle from the inside of each doorknob, and then unlock again before you exit the room; the keys don't exist because you will not need them to use these rooms as intended. However, if you faint or something, I will be able to create keys for these locks as well."

The translation telephoner looks like maybe she's going to start crying but she holds composure.

"Is there food in the houses, or will you make it when you come to make the furniture?  What about after that?"

"There are some canned things in the grocery stores and I can make anything else you want. In the long run we're going to want cargo transit between here and the surface, of course."

"Which way?"

"Do the elevators just go to some random spot on Antarctica?  How will things get there or wherever they're going from there?"

"Nearest grocery store is over there." Point. "I have not yet, but will soon, make a port and whatnot on the relevant bit of Antarctica."

"Which way is cargo transit important," the first person clarifies.  "Can't you just go places to make things wherever?"

"Yes but there is only one of me and it may or may not be the case that more of me can be introduced."

"Do birthdays all have the same powers on your world, or different ones?"

"Birthdays do not have any effects in my world."

"So you mean everyone can do that."

"No, it's a species thing, but everyone in my species can."