"Not a prohibitive one. We're indestructible. Does mean I can't put down, like, sod, right away, but I could put down some liquid nitrogen first, in places that look like they ought to be lakes, then just add water."

"I bet," says Revival, "That we could pull off some glass domes, too. Have them built so that they funnel all of the ash that falls on them to one spot, and keep - things like crops from being smothered."

"There is, already, ash everywhere - I'm not saying there's none still being produced but there are firefighting-suited Junebugs working on it."

"... Okay. That's. I'm not useless but I don't have any clever solutions that aren't 'Cam is my endless coffeepot and I work 24 hour days to clear up ash.' Which, I can do, by the way."

"I'm a little teapot, short and stout," Cam agrees. "Also a terraformer. Forrrrr half of the lower forty-eight. Why do we never send mirrors to perfect unsullied paradise worlds?"

"Technically, the mirror to Hell was close. But. Yeah, we're going to be exceptionally busy."

"Hell: Perfect Unsullied Paradise World," snorts Flicker.

"Hell's pretty nice, it's just hard to get out of."

"Heaven's pretty nice, too, but Hell has the giant tacky plane of gold. Heaven misses out on that."

"Poor bereft angels."

"So - diverting from the topic of Yellowstone, not that you shouldn't absolutely help with Yellowstone - are we all pairs?"

"Spring and Prime aren't. Rest of us are. Usually it's girl Bells - all of whom look like you except Spring who is some sort of otherworldly brown ethnicity - and boy Adarins, who look like Cypress who you saw plus or minus the hair color. We found your world next because my angel didn't want to be the only girl Adarin."

"Also it's smarter to cast a wider net in search requirements," defends Revival.

"Of course."

"Am I the only gay one?"

"Only gay Bell. Zevs are always gay so far - yours?"

"Also gay. Asked me to Homecoming but it turned out we have nothing other than being gay and liking Adana in common. And it made the 'liking Adana' part kind of awkward after."

"Pff. So far the Adarins all the same - non-picky sexuality."

"Good for you. I wonder just how badly her notes were buried... Adaaaana -"

"Coming, coming! Sorry, they were really - buried under crap, I had to fetch Savannah to figure out where they were -" Conduit hurries back to the room with various notes on how to use portals cleverly clutched in her hands. She peers at the mirror. "Wheeere did the portal person go...?"

"We're doing disaster relief, portals later."

"... Portals later!" agrees Conduit. "How good's the -"

"I can change anything into any other thing, my boyfriend can make any non-magical object, and neither of us need to sleep or go to the bathroom and are very unproblematically immortal. And Ice can resurrect the dead. Plus we have other stuff that's less easy to explain concisely."

"I know."