"I guess that it begins 'Piro, make yourself useful' and ends with you asking me to inform the dragon council that you can resurrect the dead," says Piro.

"Truly your powers of perception are astonishing."

Mial resurrects all named persons, at about-thirty-equivalent-or-the-age-they-died-at-whichever-is-smaller.

"I can just make you all able to miraculously teleport and that will solve at least one of your problems," sighs Mial. "Miraculous teleportation is very convenient."

"Yes please!" chirps Sashpark.

"There, done, you use it by deciding to teleport somewhere, you do not have to have been there as long as you can specify it uniquely, arbitrary number of passengers no physical contact required," he rattles off.

"Did you give it to all of us or just Sashpark?" asks a Sinnderel family member.

"Just Sashpark since Sashpark was the only one who asked. Who else wants it?"

The Sinnderels are still by and large confused about being alive, but there are some hands raised.

Raised hands get miracle teleportation. "Done," says Mial.

And then Sinnderels go home to Reverni.

And Piro goes home to Dragon Island, and he does not call yet another meeting immediately, but he does inform any other council members he happens to encounter that the last shren can and will resurrect the dead.

His fellow council members despair of the fact that it is shren alyemi who has all these tempting powers. It's very inconvenient.

Piro lets it be known that anyone who wants a resurrection can, of course, pass requests through him, and he will tell shren alyemi about them. Shren alyemi may or may not require that petitioners speak to him face-to-face in order to receive their miracles; he has not specified.

"Pride," he says. "In both cases. I... do apologize for neglecting my job that way for so long. It always seemed like I would be able to contact him if something sufficiently important came up, and then nothing ever seemed sufficiently important. But as for being on speaking terms with shren alyemi, I don't find that difficult at all now that I've tried it. Switching primary languages turned out to be a very effective way to become much less upset about shrens."

"I don't think most people are going to want to do that. Not as early adopters, at any rate."

Piro shrugs. "Their loss."

"Languages aren't static and this one was made up out of nothing yesterday," says Iftha. "What if something happens?"

He shrugs. "Something such as?"

"If we could predict what problems this might cause presumably the miracle workers could too. Something unexpected may happen."

"We'll see."

"I suppose," sighs Iftha.