Dusk puts him down and he runs off. She sighs - "He's going to get himself in trouble one of these days."

"Yes. On the other hand it reassures me a little that at least we didn't leave him behind with the typical slave owner. Not that is saying much. It's a very small reassurance."

"Yeah."

"Well. I think I've seen enough to reassure everyone; is there anything else I should know?"

"The details that I mentioned. The most outlandish being that I'm from another universe. And the ones of most practical concern is that Trevor and I have various magical powers and are immortal."

"The dreamshard showed us what pocket dimensions people are going to get, in case you are curious."

"I am, at least for my own."

"Yours was -" she pulls up a file on her datapad and flicks through it. "Stone tunnels with glowing water features, or ship corridors - there's some ambiguity, sometimes - with nonsentient mouse droids, in either case. The water is mildly magical, if you get the tunnels; no-one can drown in it and it doesn't hurt the droids."

"- non-sentient?"

"Droids are people. Dreamshaping sometimes comes with the ability to create people and helpfully informs you that you are creating people."

"My recent trip was to acquire droids with more personality than the typical post-mindwiping state. Because it's a greater loss than droids with less personality. We don't need to buy droids or biological slaves. Felix could make hundreds of them in a single night."

Anin looks dubious, and more than a little disturbed.

"Most dimensions can't make people, and we won't be offering dreamshaping to anyone with a dimension that would. Mine doesn't, either, only Felix's."

"All right." (It seems like that was maybe not really what she was worried about.)

"It's a pretty disturbing power to have," Trevor says in the tones of agreeing with someone.

"Yes, I can imagine."

"Well, questions? ....Comments that you'd be willing to share?"

"I assume if you were intending to share the immortality you would have said so; may I ask why you aren't?"

"The source of my immortality is not currently this universe. Also not all forms of magic are as easily shareable as Dusk. We would in fact want to share immortality if it was available. Dusk might be able to spin something like that?" Felix says turning into a question half way through.

"I've been thinking about it, yes. Better defenses are the priority, though."

Anin'tunaw looks dubious.

"Anything I can make quickly is going to have flaws; we don't want to be incapacitated and overrun and then permanent slaves of whoever managed it."

"Fair enough."

"A future dreamshaper might churn out immortality, but we can't justify actively searching for one right now."