"You have a tiny braindead god which can grant one wizard very powerful spells. I have a tiny braindead god which can grant many wizards weak spells. Together – we might have something less tiny, or less braindead, or at any rate very very uncomfortable for the powers that be. 

Also, I have it on reasonably good authority that it was for similar work that Azlant was destroyed." 

"Well I suppose that settles it.

... I would prefer if we could, first, either replicate my more elaborate anti-prophecy setup here or speed up my other demiplane. On the other hand, my model of Iomedae is saying sarcastic things about messing around more with the fabric of space and time before preserving in some form your irreplaceable future knowledge."

"Is it more complicated than flooding the plane with positive energy? Because we can probably just turn up that setting." 

"Oh, I think a flow of positive energy is more effective than a static level, that demiplane has wide gates to the positive and negative energy planes at either end so it gets a strong energy current passing through - and the actual energy levels are much higher than they were here when we arrived. That might be overkill, it's hard to test because I don't actually have god-level prophecy myself."

"My best guess is it's easier to do that here than it is to speed up your demiplane by a factor of ten, but you're probably right that we should be responsible archmages first." 

"Well, I don't know, you said in the future we brought the pyramid to Axis! Sure, it might not be as stable now that we've been making a bunch of changes, but -

...right. Responsible archmages. Why don't we work on recording safer things today-subjective, and then I'll go tell Iomedae that for safety and security reasons we're going to need to spend actual-days on some of it."

"If we must – spells we have better versions of in the future is the natural place to start. Now, I know a wizard's spellbook is a very personal thing – " 

"Are you saying future-me never showed you my old books?"

"Future you's mostly using artificial witch familiars – but, no, she hasn't." 

"Well yes, of course, if she were using my old books I wouldn't expect her to show you! How about we swap, you look through mine for spells that look obviously out of date and I look through yours for spells that look new and exciting."

"Sounds like a plan! Just a minute, I need to disable some safeguards – " 

So does she! She was not born yesterday. A few minutes later, with the safeguards disabled and Élie warned about the symbol of death on page thirty-seven, they swap spellbooks. She is obviously getting the better end of this deal, because Élie has eight hundred more years of spell development in his.

Yes, yes, yes, and he believes that it's fundamentally good for wizards to share their knowledge with each other for the sake of progress in their mutual art, so who's really coming out ahead? 

Is it, by chance, the aggregate of all of humanity reasoning beings?

Oh he meant himself. But also that! 

"...Your magic missile is better? Nobody's made any advances to magic missile in three thousand years!"

"Really? But it's so intuitive. ...Why do you have a spell to make corpses decompose faster?" 

"That's why everyone was so sure it couldn't be further improved! It really is quite elegant now that I see it, though -

...Oh I don't think I've ever used that one, actually, I just picked it up off of a vampire and copied it. I assume he used it to, you know, hide the evidence. Because throwing them in a river was beneath his dignity or something."

"Some of these you have in the future but not as wizard spells. Some of them I didn't think existed as wizard spells." 

"...You really should have asked future-me to share with you sooner. I think she would have, unless you're a very good liar."

" – I wasn't entirely joking about it being a very personal request. And you're a very private person – thought you did share your witch spells with Naima freely enough. 

Maybe I should have asked. I suppose it's a good thing I never had the urgent need to, uh, curse everything within a one mile radius to eternal darkness." 

"...You're still in the vampire section."

"He must have been a very prolific vampire!" 

"Oh I'm sure he didn't develop all these himself, probably copied from other vampires or Tar-Baphon or any of the other undead spellcasters clever enough to not let me get my hands on their spellbook.

- fabricate is quite clever, by the way. I love what you did with this bit, here - "

Yes he is very very proud of it does she have opinions on how to get it down to fifth circle, which he's already proven is theoretically possible, future her agrees but she's busy ruling a kingdom just at present –