[The Reclaimers will certainly come back— but she can't say the same for any of the locals that were lost in Vista Virs, or here. Those casualties from the last mission weigh heavily on her, though they had done everything they feasibly could. She imagines she'll feel much the same about whoever paid the ultimate price here.

She lets out a soft huff of breath. That much, at least, is easy enough to answer.]

The first one could alter the size of things— it made a Candlenights tree so big that people could live in the ornaments that hung from the branches. The second was the Architect's Pen. It could write any idea into existence.