"What do you mean?"

"A place without wind might be bad for people or even for plants but I don't think it's bad for, like, rocks? So whatever is making this judgment probably cares about people and plants and not rocks, or not very much about rocks."

"The - capacity to comfortably sustain human life in the long term, might be a good way to put it."

"I feel like being a prism might inhibit that. Population growth."

"Maybe completing the cycle will afford it room to grow. Or maybe it wasn't designed with that in mind."

"I have a few complaints about the design of this cycle already but if it turns out I have to choose between ending up with an expandable world and saving this one I'm going to be really annoyed. If the world just can't grow then the world just can't grow and interworld transit will have to do, it'd be less - personally frustrating that way."

"Fortunately, yesterday interworld transit was invented."

"Yes, congratulations on that."

"Thanks!"

"It opens up a lot of possibilities that were previously not even in sight as options!"

"Speaking of which, is it possible there are other shapes bobbing along the sea of chaos?"

"...Good question." He glances back at the spirits.

"I don't know how we'd tell if there were. But I would be very interested to find out."

"Do you think it would be possible to look for them?" asks Ravkesial of Cor.

"Uh, yes, by going back to my world and trying from there, I don't have teleportation. Gates require you to actually visit each location."

"Hmm. Then they might not be of all that much more use to you than any other world you could find. Although you might be of more use to them..."

"And we don't actually know what would happen if you went home with the Blade of the Void."

"...might be bad?"

"It could be that it would neatly break the cycle and this world would not end at the end of this year and everything would be fine. It could be that it would messily break the cycle and this world would unravel and be consumed by Void and Chaos on the spot. It could be that nothing interesting would happen and you could go and come back as many times as you liked. Although I do think there's reason to expect that if you were outside the world at the end of the year, there might be disastrous effects to you, the cycle, or the world."

"...I mean, I did invent interworld transit specifically to avoid being on a dying world. So I'm not terribly thrilled. But maybe the place can be saved. I can send someone else with messages so they can find more dumping grounds and evac sites, anyway."

"I will do my best to save the world," says Riale. "I mean, I was going to anyway, but it'd just be so unfair if you succeeded at getting out of yours in a brilliant unprecedented way and then went down with this one instead."

"So unfair! Although I'll settle for managing to get mine word that the spell worked."

"If I have any say in the matter, you will not end up needing to settle."

"Thanks."

"Where do you come by all this confidence?" wonders Ravkesial.