Well, less interesting dimensions are still [awesome|pretty|tasty|aesthetically-pleasing-fractal-of-laws-of-physics] but they would be kinda [same-y|not-as-thrilling|unvaried]. Is she sure that people not getting hurt is this important?

Again, those set of priorities are just so weird. But the thing with traveling might be easier if they make the place easier to move to and from? Like the place where Felix was when the dreamshard moved them both between universes.

It sends the concept of [the thing] that needs to be changed to allow droids to become dreamshapers. It is not literally the ability to experience sleep or dreams, but something in that area, it's not a state of mind that droids can naturally enter. Dusk is not entirely sure it's a state of mind droids could enter without turning them into cyborgs or heavily rewriting their mental architecture. It sounds like a Difficult Project.

Yes, yes it is, she's sure. That's not the only way to do it, it doesn't have to never make cool dimensions, it's just a simple way; another way is to find someone who cares about making sure people don't get hurt and get them to help pick who to give dimensions to, and that's what she plans on doing this time.

Making a place that's easier to go from sounds fine. She'd prefer to be able to put it back to normal afterward, but as long as it's not too easy to go from there, it's fine if it stays.

That doesn't sound like what she wants, with the droids. She's not happy about it.

Variety is clearly better than no variety. But also more dimensions is clearly better than no dimensions. But they can work with less variety (maybe not a lot less variety?). Can't the dreamshard just [show|send-the-impression-to] her what the dimensions are going to be like?

What is too easy? Being able to put it back depends on how much easier-for-traveling the place is.

Well, even the dreamshard can't make things more divisible by zero.

Letting her know what peoples' dimensions would be like before they get them would definitely help, though the real problem is figuring out what they'll do with any powers the dimension gives them. That's a different sort of strategy than what she was talking about with avoiding interesting dimensions - avoiding interesting dimensions is for if it goes off on its own again and doesn't have anybody to ask. (It should please not do that here.)

She doesn't want it to be easy enough that someone might figure out how to travel on their own; depending on who figures it out, that could really hurt the people wherever they end up.

The problem with the droids is, they're already not thought of as people, so they almost never get what they want and bad things often happen to them; if they can't be dreamshapers then everybody else will take that as more evidence that they aren't people, and it's one more way other people can be more powerful and potentially hurt them.

 So many constraints! The dreamshard is sort of vague about promising not going off, because then Dusk might stop new dimensions to come into existence here. (It seems to think of this as less of a deal or a promise and more like a change of opinion.)

The dreamshard tries to convey what would be necessary to make a place easy to travel. It's a complex dreamshaping-related sensation that relates to the feeling of portals and the edges of dimension and could be more or less summarized as "make this place dimensionally weak" and can be achieved with a lot of large portals in an area. Ideally portals that have been kept close so long that they burst open (where "so long" means decades years.) 

Droids are clearly people. It feels about this much in the same way some people feel that it's absurd to say that an art genre doesn't count as "real" art, but it's really sure about it. Dreamshapers can tell. Maybe more people should be dreamshapers of the sort that can tell that droids are people.

She's going to be doing most of the work, with all these weird preferences! For now it can ignore most of this, really, she just wants it to have some idea of what other sorts of people prefer, in case it finds itself in this sort of situation again.

Making a place easy to travel from sounds doable; she might be able to speed up the process with the Force, even. This isn't a good place for it, but she'll get started on it as soon as she finds one. (Does it matter whether it's in the real world or a pocket dimension?)

That'd be a solution; not an ideal one - the people who most need to know are generally the ones she least wants to give dreamshaping to - but definitely better than nothing. Does it have any other ideas?

I guess it might make it easier in the future.

It doesn't matter if it's in either sort of location. In a sense the portals make it so it's in both the real world and the connected pocket dimensions.

The dreamshard really doesn't have any ideas. People are weird. They don't think that pocket dimensions are the most important priority ever.

Okay. That sounds like enough to get started with, then.

She reports the relevant bits of it to Felix and Trevor.

Felix overwhelmingly grateful for her efforts. He might having a bit of trouble talking.

Trevor does that then. That sounds like a great starting point. Way better than they thought it would be possible.

An absolutely minimum for the sake of Felix's well-being would be to bring Fenris here. Where "minimum" means, that Felix's baseline happiness would increase... 3000% give or take. Would that be somehow easier power-wise? They could make a trip to get Fenris and then stay around until stable transportation is achieved? Is there a way to bring Fenris without going over there and meeting him?

(Daisy goes and stands by Felix and holds his hand.)

Dusk didn't ask about bringing people in the other direction; she's not certain she'll be able to manage two-way transportation at all. But she can ask. Bringing Fenris the way Felix was brought seems like a bad idea, though, if the plan is for Felix to ultimately go home; then they'll have two backup clones to worry about.

(Felix squeezes her hand back.)

The forking won't happen if they manage to transport Felix and his fountain at same time. But the twins are not opposed to be forked in principle. Alternatively, Trevor could be the one fetching/informing Fenris, so he can come here/fork and keep company to Felix however long the Galaxy needs it.

Mmhmm. Well, it sounds like it's going to be a few years anyway - call it five minimum; she is pretty optimistic that she'll be able to speed it up, but she's also going to be busy - so it makes sense to wait until it's a little closer to make any specific plans.

That is still 1/100 of the time Felix was expecting to take. So it's a very good prognostic! And they can stand to wait to make specific plans.

Felix is kind of afraid to feel this hopeful, but he is very, very, very grateful.

Yeah.

She gets back to work. Slavery research, next, and looking for an out-of-the-way planet for their base of operations.

"She'll do it," Daisy reassures as soon as she's gone. "I know she's being distant with you, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter to her."

"I know. I don't know how can I ever repay her."

"- she doesn't expect you to. She might be offended if you tried."

"Oh."

"How would you have felt about it if she'd tried to repay you for getting her out of her dimension?"

"I would think that I was just doing the minimum necessary."

"Mmhmm. She doesn't feel quite like that - she doesn't feel obligated to help people just because they need help - but close. If she didn't want to do it, she wouldn't be doing it."

Nod.

"Would you say that is framed less selflessly or something?"