"Gate." She replaces the torn one.

"See you in two weeks, or if I do amazingly at this, less."

"See you."

She does not do amazingly at this.

Promise is there in two weeks.

"I rescind all orders I didn't give you," he greets her.

"I rescind all orders I didn't give you too. Hi."

"Hello! Good news: I managed to hold harmonics flat enough to do fairylights in them. Bad news: if I let go, they get all crumpled up again. Good news: I can make artefacts that hold them flat! Bad news: I haven't yet been able to get to 'gate-making' levels of sorcery."

"...yes, that takes years by default."

"By default, but I'm arrogant enough to think I could've managed it based on what I remembered of what it looked like, magically. Not so, apparently."

"I don't have my book on gates here, unfortunately."

"It's okay. Presumably you'd still be able to make a gate from my world to this one, near your tree."

"Maybe even in my tree."

"Ooh, yeah, good idea."

Also wow he had never seen her happy. That. Sure is something.

"Is now and wherever this one goes to good?"

"Yeah."

She goes through.

The other side is a grassy hill overseeing a city. It's far enough away a human would probably take a couple of hours to get there on foot, but there's nothing obstructing their view.

Explorer steps through. "Okay so I can get the harmonics flat here..." and he gestures vaguely to indicate where he means.

"...can you outline it in lights?"

"Yup." He does.

She makes a gate!

It settles instantly.

"Should make the both of us invisible, inaudible-except-to-each-other, and intangible-with-exceptions."

"I can't get that fancy but okay..."

"I can," he says, grinning. "—you can speak all languages, right, this will look like me just describing the desired effect out loud but that's actually functional." And he starts describing in detail the effects he suggested, including in what cases light will or will not interact with Promise and himself, how sound will work, etc.

"I don't do languages at all, they seem like a lot of bother."