"How soon can you - make a portal here? Disaster relief's better if it's - nowish instead of 'next weekish' or something."

"We can send someone over right now to make it. But we need to know where you want it, which is up to you."

"And I could give rides to and from someplace far off but only if I'm around to do that. So maybe - back of the house? For that matter how long would it take you to expand the house with your magic powers, we're really crammed in here."

"This is Charlie's house? I know what it looks like, if Adana will make some holes in some walls I can put an addition in the backyard with some spare bedrooms and storage space in about five minutes, no problem."

"Yeah, Charlie's house."

"I'm happy to put some holes in some walls, but I should probably show up to do that in the second group to not waste mana. Once the portal's up I can just go there by walking."

"So we need to pick a spot for the portal that won't be messed with by renovations."

"Put the portal right next to the back door, on the left as you face the house, and attach the addition to said back door and the wall on the right of it."

"Sweetie, I think you can just show the mage that's doing it, you're the one that puts the microchips in people."

"Yeah. Also, you guys should probably ask your Charlie just to be sure that it's okay to renovate."

"Uh - yeah. How good are - Charlies at this kind of thing?"

"Iiiiii don't honestly know, my Charlie has been dead for nearly a hundred years now and has known that I am a demon for most of that time - Phix?"

"Won't be thrilled, but will cope," she says.

"We could also just - move out. If they can make literally anything.... Houses are included. But - augh, then we have to deal with buying property -"

"We have apartments here, actually. Already all set up."

"Even if we moved out it'd be squishy in here. I don't think Alli and Savannah would share a room very well. And Charlie'll find out one way or another if we have as much traffic and intervention as we're talking about. I'll go - get him." She pecks Conduit on the cheek and goes looking for her dad.

Conduit smiles at Flicker, then looks at the mirror. "Uh. There are - I should probably call the Junebugs, how am I going to explain this?"

"You can wait to call them, and let us explain it," offers Revival.

"What are the Junebugs and why are they called that?"

"Oh! Right, um. Superpowered disaster relief, and people who help coordinate them. They're supposed to be called the 'Gemini Guard' but since the astrological sign shows up mostly in June, they got nicknamed the Junebugs to be cute. B- Flicker and I are junior members. They have a pretty good idea of what's going on, where, so coordinating with them would be great."

"Nifty. How're you going to spin the alts thing? We are like extradimensional twins therefore powers?"

"... That's clever, let's do that, unless we think of something better. I don't think they're likely to be snippy, anyway, if you're helping out."

Bella appears back in the room. "Charlie doesn't seem to actually believe me but says we can hypothetically remodel the house with extra bedrooms and maybe a nice big storage cellar."

"Cool. Okay. Then - mages, are you ready to send some people?"

"We," snorts Mage Number One, "have been ready for a while now. Prime and Cam are going, right?"