And after more evidence that it is in fact safe, the Imperium takes it.

Fenris develops Flight for his stamina gift.

Like Temperance, Felix gets nothing.

Trevor gets tactile telekinesis which essentially works like super-strength and the ability to identify materials at a short distance.

Sadde doesn't get anything, either.

Monica would rather play a strictly tactical role, thank you.

Lord promises that he is going to refine the formula, but people shouldn't try again too soon. Most people are vaguely thankful that they don't need to spend another night convulsing.

Yeah, well, they have more gifts now. What now?

...Trevor proposes an idea.

They set up a test. And given enough stamina Trevor can uses his power to hold an object and Fenris together so the former doesn't crumble and the latter doesn't fly straight up into the sky. Fenris can then push it forward at a considerable speed. Very considerable speed. They test it with a small floating island.

...it works. Sparkles is confused about the physics of this place.

What is so confusing? Henry asks while using anti-magic to make an area of pure darkness around his arm.

The fact that magic doesn't have a speed.

"...should it?"

"Everything has a speed in most worlds."

"If it wasn't a waste of your time I would've asked for books about the laws of your universe, if only for the novelty of it."

"I unfortunately do not have any, and it turns out most universes with sapient life I've visited have very similar laws. Yours is very exceptional."

"Maybe they are clustered by similarity and this is the first one with our set of laws?"

"...perhaps, but that would be worrying if so."

Maybe, but we haven't found any other world that works by our laws and not even worlds that work obviously differently from yours. There isn't a particular reason to believe that you're going to keep finding places like this one.

"I suppose you're right."

Meanwhile, a couple of miles away: Fenris and Trevor are going "eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" at high speeds. This is a very important part of science.

They certainly started out a couple of miles away; now they're what Sparkles would call "a couple lightyears away."

Yup and they can use Felix to at least navigate their way back and Fenris can easily hold the atmosphere around them.

Trevor is already making plans for a flying castle that they can use to fly between the stars. Ostentatious, but Sparkles can make one pretty easily and it is going to be so awesome.

She can make them a flying castle, sure.

It is large, but more in a cozy and welcoming way than an absurdly opulent one. They work on it in their spare time.

But of course they have a jailbreak to plan.

Hey, is there a way the mindflayers could help?