I mean, that's what I thought! But I guess it might be the same as like, when your computer's slow, so you tell it to come on. [ She pauses, catches that she said something probably world-specific. Sometimes, these things slip out. ] Uh, I don't know if your world had computers, but they're like... machines that can do a bunch of different stuff. My world had tons of 'em. Anyway, it was a thing back home, that when your machines didn't work right, you'd try to talk 'em into it, even though they weren't alive.

[ After a year in Abraxas, Julie has gotten fairly good at talking around technology that doesn't exist for most other Summoned, but it still pops up every now and then. She has had to explain everything from dinosaurs to Jesus Christ to cake pops, so now she just tries to keep it simple. The habit of trying to cajole technology into working properly, though, might be too much. ]

I mean, I don't know that it really gets any easier or stronger just 'cause I got closer. It ain't like my domain's far away from here, y'know? It was just a thought.