"Alright. Lead the way?"

"Mm-hm." Ranary peeks out through the curtains to see if there's anyone lying in wait outside. It's still raining, so would-be attackers are not lurking. Out she sweeps, pulling her coat on.

And Crow follows her!

It's a wet walk with a few gate shortcuts and then they are in a non-raining neighborhood with sheep fields visible up in the hills behind the houses. Ranary knocks sharply on a house's door.

"Who's there?"

"It's Ranary with a decent lead!"

"Hello! I'm from very very very not here and your magic is even worse than mine but we think I can maybe help!"

"Don't be sure your magic doesn't have a nasty surprise for you," says the occupant of the house, opening the door. "But we have short term problems, as you have apparently been told. What do you do?"

"You are having surprisingly little trouble believing the not here thing."

"She's got wings and my project has been clawing a way open between universes to fall through, so I was already hoping really hard that there were some."

"Oh I am perfectly aware that every Power has a Price, but my magic's tends to be upfront - there's a reason I phrased it as 'even worse,' my world's magic isn't super natively wanting to be helpful it's just that wow your world's magic is something."

"My world's magic Feeds on Fear. There are Powers of Fear, with various domains and kinds of Fear they Feed on, and empowered things and places and people, of which I am one, that do things depending on what they're empowered by. Everything empowered, though, must in some way Feed its Patron."

"I am a servant of Infinity or the Vast - the Fear of heights and depths, the Sea, the Sky, the Void, anything that is Bigger Than You Are." There is reverence in her voice here.

"And I do a whole collection of things, but I suspect most relevantly to you Infinity means Infinity and I can, if you Feed me, get you air and water to feed your unhelping disappearance nonsense, because I am not going to run out of Sky or Sea. I do mean it about the Feeding me, though, especially if you want me doing big flashy expensive things all the time which it seems like you do - I've been talking about that with Ranary."

"What does that... mean."

"She's got an infinite ocean dimension she can teleport people into and out of and maybe also other ones - the ocean had air above it, I don't know if they're separate dimensions? - and she has to scare people by putting them in the dimensions, I think? I visited the sea but it wasn't too scary, so I think maybe usually people will be drowning a little bit or something?"

"Some people are more scared of the Sea than you are and also I was being gentle. And I have ways of Feeding other than taking people to a Vast Domain but yes, the general summary suffices."

"And yes, there's - okay four but in three categories - dimensions I can access. The Sea, which is as you saw it. The Sky, which is Endless falling with no ground - that's where I'd get your maybe-windstorm. The Void, which is floaty like space and is both of the last two - comes in 'starless black (mysteriously lighted enough to see)' and 'has impossibly faraway stars' - both of these usually come with the ability to breathe unless I want to revoke it, as a conceit of the Domain, despite the fact that in actual space you couldn't."

"In actual space, can you breathe?"

"I am categorically not a thing that has breathing problems unless something that can beat me in a powers fight imposes them on me - which is to say yes, I can go safely to space if I have some good reason to, and that category of things - breathing-and-radiation-shielding-and-generally-not-being-inconvenienced-by-being-in-space - is something I can extend other people if I want, I brought a whole group to my world's Moon just because we wanted to go once, though that sort of thing is expensive. That trip actually paid for itself, because the most Food person in the group insisted on being shown the Stars when I was showing everyone else and singlehandedly made it energy-positive, but I'd've otherwise had to Feed after."

Crow is clearly somewhat proud of having done this. She in fact specializes somewhat in finicky environmental control, and while most any full-Become Vastling could trivially, like, bring someone underwater and not drown them, having a whole group safely on the Moon for a while is not as easy as she can make it look.

"Does the air have to come from where you are or just where you can see?"

"Where I can see, I think."

"So you could go up in space, hit the whole half of the planet with air, and go around to add more everywhere else before the pressure differential gets very far."

"...I could try this but that seems like far enough away that control will be difficult and I'm worried I'll make problems and not be nearby enough to know well enough what I would even need to fix."

"I don't know exactly what knowhow and magical limitations you're working with. .......can we put a disappearance point in your dimensions, so that we can do magic without making it worse?"

"Maybe! If I understand correctly you won't wreck anything by trying it. What do you need in order to put a disappearance point somewhere?"

"A mage needs to go there and create one in a place they can see. I don’t know know if it’s possible in midair but it is on water. It will destroy things on contact. Mages trying to connect to it have to see it."

"Alright. Shall I bring you to the Sea and see if you can create a disappearance point there and still be able to access it once I bring you back? If it works it sounds like I'll need to bring anyone new who wants to connect to it there but that should be fairly trivial."

"In a minute. I want to make really sure we're clear on everything since in spite of your excellent Gatetalk or translation magic you are from another dimension. You seem very nice but the emphasized Feeding on Fear is really a little concerning - can people relate to this like, uh, sledding, where they have a thrilling time that technically includes being scared, or what?"