:I would definitely understand more of it if you did that, but I'm not sure if it's a good use of your time? Since I can in fact read at all, and Leareth can read much better than me and would probably also be interested. And I'm trying to get more practice reading and writing so that I eventually get more comfortable with it. ...Oh, right, that's also something you can do with Mindhealing, is cheating at learning things like languages faster. It's easier to do on myself but I can in theory do it for other people too: 

"- wow, that's amazing. Okay, my preliminary guess on how you should make money is that you should have a day job of refereeing studies, and also auction off a slot per day or something for rich people to bid ridiculous amounts so they can have you help them learn Lozan or snap them out of a psychotic episode or something."

:Wow! Are there a lot of rich people in your world who would pay for things like that?: 

"Probably not that many per capita but there's ten billion people in the world and some of them would be willing to get on a plane for this!"

:....Sorry wait what there's how many people in your world???: 

"...ten billion? About."

:That's so many! How do you fit that many people? Where do they live? How do you feed them? I mean I assume you're better at farming than Valdemar, but - eight in ten people in Valdemar are farmers and that's lower than Hardorn and Karse although to be fair it's higher than Rethwellan - but I don't know how you'd fit all the farms you'd need, wouldn't you run out of good soil....?: 

"I assume our farms are a lot more productive than yours? And global trade means that places with especially good agricultural conditions can feed the colder places. And you can fit a lot of people in a neighborhood if the buildings are mostly five or six stories and there's a few extra tall ones."

:Wow!: 

She kind of wants to tell Leareth immediately, just to see the awe in his face. But also he might just jump straight to the implications for his horrible murderspree god-powering project. Though Melody is pretty sure he's not going to be defaulting to that plan now, and wouldn't be able to implement it for decades anyway? It's not like they've exactly talked about it. 

:...I guess it makes sense that if you've got that many people, some of them would want to pay for neat Mindhealing things. Maybe I should write up something on all the neat Mindhealing things I can do?: 

"That would be great, if you've picked up enough Kayshu in, what, half a week, that you can do that!"

:I mean, I don't think I'm quite at the point where I can write it up yet? Leareth could, he's gone way harder on language practice and also he seems to be picking up the reading and writing much faster than the speaking, which is the opposite of where I'm at. Between the two of us we could probably manage to write something up now, but I was also more thinking I could do it next week: 

"Sounds good. I'll brainstorm some things - I should give you my email -"

:That's a good idea. Or I could just give you mine, it's -: damn it she's forgotten the transliteration now. :...Nevermind, it's somewhere on the laptop but Leareth's using that right now. If you tell me yours I can write it down on paper?: 

"Sure." Her work email is just her name and some numbers.

That's very straightforward for Melody to write down, even at her current limited skill level! 

:...Anyway, er, before you go - are there 'stimulants' other than the thing that's in tea? I think I'd be interested in learning more about the options, if so. So far your world seems to just be way better at all kinds of drugs than Velgarth: 

"Yeah, there are! I bet your social worker has a pharmacist contact for you -"

"Yeah, I can get a stim sampler ordered like the sleep sampler Leareth's using," says Dree.

:Great!: Melody beams at Dree. And then remembers to switch to private Mindspeech. 

:Meant to ask you - we tried #4 on the sleep sampler list for Leareth last night and he slept possibly the best he ever has in the past two years, and seems to be doing well so far today, but also he slept for twelve hours straight? And that's after I gave it to him at 1 am or so because I'd forgotten when he actually went to bed multiple hours before that, so I think he actually slept for more like fifteen hours total. Right now I'm not sure if it's a side effect or if he was just actually that tired but it'd be good to know what's normal there?: 

:Oh - uh, well, you could try another of the same kind tonight and see if he sleeps for a less ridiculous amount of time now that he's more caught up? Or snap it in half, if you want to try a smaller dose:

:Sure, that's mostly what I'd been thinking already, I just want to double-check things with you while we're still getting our bearings: She smiles slightly, shaking her head. :Honestly, I appreciated the chance to sleep in - though it's mostly my fault I needed to. I discovered advertisement videos for conditioner and then I could keep clicking on advertisement videos for other things and I stayed up much later than I should have: 

Dree giggles a little. Kelta looks confused.

:- Oh, sorry: Melody adds to Kelta. :Private conversation, but - I was just mentioning to Dree how I discovered last night that your world is incredibly good at advertisement videos. And then I watched them for too many hours and stayed up later than I really should have. They were very pretty! Once I have money I think I want to order at least five kinds of 'conditioner' and see if they make my hair that pretty: 

"Ha! Once I got sucked into ads for board games and the next week I had a stack of six of them and nobody wanted to play them with me."

:...Ooh. What kind of board games do you have here? - Um, I want to ask but also I maybe don't want to ask if it's going to cause me to have six of them next week and no one to play them with: 

"How about if you want me to come over again I can bring a couple and we can play them when we're done with shop talk?"

:Sure!: ...And I'm definitely going to try the 'stimulant pack' - I know I said I wasn't sure if tea did anything for magic reserves, but I'm not sure I would really be able to tell, given how throughout my entire adult life I've always drunk more tea to the extent I was doing more exhausting magic work. If it turns out that 'stimulants' give me extra magic reserves after all, I'm going to be so delighted about that!: