"Yeah, sorry. Maybe something to do with portals so you can fix multiple people across the world at one time? Like, two little tiny portals that you carry around and one's carried by a helper and you poke people through it while they're on the other side of the world as you go healing things yourself on your side?"

"That... is a very charming idea. Is that magically feasible? I could even have lots of them, a chain of disks or something, priests could have the other ends, it would be marvelously efficient."

"It's completely feasible," says an amused Prime. "I'll have to add it to my list of things to make."

"Rapid communication Ice has a technological solution to, which may scale better, although the mirrors for acolytes might still be worth it - mage gadgets have good adoption rates here, but I'm not sure how easily the population of makers can stretch to serve even just Pantheon, let alone all the other worlds newly available."

"We might be able to manage Pantheon at a reasonable time frame, if I threw money at it to get enough volunteers. Not any others, though," muses Prime. "What's the technological solution? Do you know?"

"I don't remember what she called it - I didn't have a notebook on me at the time. But she's going to get us devices that do it, and connect us to the network of it on her world. When she gets the chance."

"Soo... Mirrors get to be temporary solution until that's viable. And then once the worlds all get the technological thing that I need to know more of yesterday, we keep the mirrors for if we find another plane. Then, bam, take the mirrors out of storage and we're ready to roll."

"Yes."

Prime rolls his eyes, but continues to not comment.

"I would like to get at least a small shrine set up," Aya tells Prime. "It doesn't have to be complicated to work - a table with a sign on it would still let offerings function, although it wouldn't be an aesthetic long-term solution. I can probably find a priest to keep an eye on it and explain what it's for while I'm elsewhere after a day or two of looking around for a temporary staffing measure, although the commute might be enough of a barrier to warrant brisk local hiring as soon as that's possible."

"I can hire a few mages to build you a temple with a shrine," he offers. "As to staff - I can find someone to mind a shrine if that's all you need."

"It's - not strictly metaphysically necessary, but strongly customary for good reasons, to have the shrines and temples looked after by actual adherents."

"Then I'll leave that to you. You know the requirements better than I do."

"I'm sure I can find someone to take it on as a temporary job, and I can rotate them until someone here is worth promoting."

"All right. The mage offer, though? Does the temple need to be built by believers, or can I ply them to do it with shiny things like they're magpies?"

"Oh, that I'd appreciate very much, and there's no reason it needs to be built by pious hands, particularly, though it might be the first time a temple was built by people literally ignorant of the existence of the relevant goddess."

"Mages plied like magpies it is, then," says Prime, brightly. "I can do that easily."

"Will I need to be coming up with a way to pay you back? I'm not particularly liquid right now - I wouldn't be even if you'd met me without the large gap in my life."

"No, just keep healing people and consider that payment enough."

"I like the way you operate."

Prime laughs a little. "Well thank you. Feeling's mutual."

Aya pulls out a little notebook and starts writing down her to-do list in light of Perinixu's successful establishment.

And Prime will - politely ignore the desert acolyte making out with a healer over there. Oh look, the sky. How pretty.