" - seems unlikely."

"By everyone votes he means everyone without red hair and then there is math so people with blue hair count more than everyone else. It is indeed still less silly than marriage-dependent monarchy."

"Are the ones with red hair bad at voting?"

"That's the idea. And more informed people make better decisions and blue and green are most informed."

"Huh."

Sigh.

"You disagree?"

"I was brought up in an at least ostensibly egalitarian democracy where citing earlier historical periods in which certain people counted less than other people or certain groups could not vote was a winning rhetorical move."

"If you're doing the voting thing because it's good that people have a voice in who rules them, then it makes sense to count them the same, if you're doing it as a stability measure then maybe less so - if you have technologies or magic that boosts working memory then Iobel might be able to get her immortality to snap -"

"...explain?"

"The way you get access to a spell is you write it out and then trim it down and then if you can hold it all in your head at once it - clicks, and you've got it permanently after that. She's been working on immortality but it's far too big to fit in her head, but if there were technology or magic for it..."

"I do not have tech for that per se but maybe stimulants would help or something."

"If that's safe it'd be worth a try."

"I'm a fully qualified medical demon. Nechar might also be able to do it."

"When people come back to demolish the wall I will send them for Iobel."

Nod.

People come back to demolish the wall! Mitros talks to Antir. 

Antir flies off to Iobel, pantomimes follow-me.

"...I have a sleeping cat on my lap, how important is this -"

Flap flap flap flap!!!

"Okay..." She manages to transfer lap cat to shoulder without waking him up and follows the bird.

A wall of the palace is being demolished and Mitros is holding a door and talking to a cleanshaven blue-haired person who looks just like him and a shirtless winged man.

"...weird," says Iobel. "Explicable, or is this 'hey come have a look at this I don't know either'?"

"I only know what I've been told but I've been told very exciting things! This is apparently Milliways, which is a magic door between universes - well, a magic bar that opens a door on random universes. There are lots of universes. Sometimes they have - the same people save for circumstances. I apparently come in blue and Elf - haven't met the Elf. Neither of them are married to you, sadly for them. The wall is so Cam here can end malaria, which apparently is transmitted by mosquitos and can be eradicated by releasing more mosquitos."

"How does adding mosquitoes to a mosquito-derived problem solve it -"

"Only female mosquitoes bite. I can release male mosquitoes, sterile ones which cannot have baby mosquitoes, and if there are enough of them they will in this inability drive the species extinct."