"I may or may not be immune to - or, well, optionally and visibly-only-to-me immune to - magical screening for honesty."

"Good to know, that's reason to be more careful with your world. We also have Maitimo screening for honesty which I am guessing you are not immune to."

"I am not."

"Saves a lot of time, that, though all of them are pretty busy. The packets describe a process for access to most of our stuff but access is definitely kind of uneven at the moment, it's a difficulty of scaling so fast."

"Well, now there's two new ones, is this a meaningful bump in the Timothy population - sorry, the Maitimo population?"

"Twelve to fourteen, so yes,  it should help."

Giggle. "Is that also how many of Minor and everybody -"

"Uh, the Space ones fork so the actual count varies. There are nine distinct sets of the whole family, one set of which has issues and doesn't really count."

"...issues?"

"Their Valar sucked extra and did thousands of years of random mind control and they vary from 'fucked up by actual mind control' to 'fucked up by circumstances' but they're all kind of amoral paranoid jerks and they export immortality necklaces and their Fëanor invents things but otherwise they stay out of stuff."

"...ah."

"That's the reason your Curufin is only an almost-guaranteed clearance for a teleport, he doesn't often come in 'amoral jerk' but he can if you make everything terrible enough and arrange for Fëanor to be raised by people Melkor cultivated specifically and so on. But this Maitimo's standard and he said it's fine."

"...yay. Thank you for not being an amoral jerk, love."

"I do my best. Uh, if there were a me who was an amoral paranoid jerk not giving him cool magic would make him more of one. I know you're balancing that against saving the worlds and stuff."

       "Yeah, we're aware. I don't make the calls."

"Who does?"

      "Uh, on Vanda Nossëo mostly Loki and our Maitimo - at least the weird calls that we don't have a process for. Loki saved our Arda and she's the one who developed the teleport."

"Would giving him the cool magic make him less of an amoral paranoid jerk, or would they just have a magical amoral paranoid jerk on their hands?"

"If I came in untrustworthy amoral paranoid jerk that'd be more surprising."

"I guess you can request their notes or something."

"It sounds like there's a lot we can do at home, first. - is there a standard solution to slavery or something -"

          "Usually robots, and depending on the situation either a nicer planet for the formerly-enslaved or just some nice stuff to help ease the transition for them. You're an Earth in like 1810, so I can also get you history textbooks from other Earths - different magic systems but it matters weirdly little - so you know how it normally goes from there."

"I didn't realize there were other Earths."

         "Yeah, Earths and Ardas are both commonly-occurring kinds of world."

"What year are the other Earths?"

         "Uh, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2050, 2190, 2250? Something like that?"

"- why a bunch around the same -"

         "Wish and Cube and Eclipse and we have no idea, I think some of your alts are working on it. - your Cube alt invented a cure for aging which unfortunately only works locally where there's different physics but that whole neighborhood's at least really nice -"

Minor grins.

"Congratulations," repeats Miranda. "Uh, our magic system was becoming - less irrelevant - around when we got vanished."

"Then the textbooks might be mostly just curiosities. Post-industrial societies we usually offer our membership conditions and aid programs, pre-industrial ones we mostly bribe governments to stay out of the way or ignore them entirely, 1810 could go either way -"

"Makes sense."

"When you're ready to head back send me a location over osanwë -"

"Few things to pack into the house from the cave lab thing and then I think we should be set."

"Sounds good."

Pack pack pack pack here's what the house looks like here's what was around the edges.