"Maybe have both?"

"Can do."

And various other project elements are delegated. He will be responsible for convincing various governments to permit this, but he has quite a lot to bribe them with. He forwards an announcement about interdimensional humanitarian work to Ambela for review before it gets published on Sanity.

"Oh," he says to Cam, "I bet you that with their world moving again the Security and Infirmary shifts ended, we should go meet the new ones."

"Sounds like a good idea."

The infirmary now contains a girl in a frilly blue outfit.

"Hi! I'm Timothy."

"Sara," she says. "Are you hurt...?"

"No, just seeing who's here," says Cam.

"Where're you from?"

"Tennessee."

"Oh, on Earth? What year?"

"1998."

"If I gave you a list of things that may happen in the future on your Earth would you take them to the relevant authorities?"

"No, probably not."

"Don't want trouble?"

"I'm just real busy at home."

"How does your magic work?"

"I just kinda do it."

"Does everyone have it?"

"No, you have to contract for it."

"Can people from other worlds?"

"I don't know. You have to be a girl."

"Why's that? What are the terms of the contract?"

"He didn't like write it down. I don't know why you have to be a girl, maybe we're just better."

"What sort of stuff can you do?"

"Uh, healing, obviously."

"Yeah, that I figured. Is that all?"

"No, there's not like a list, but I'm good at healing."