"Me?  Oh, no, they don't teach that in kindergarten.  Oh, I'm a deacon by courtesy, simply because I'm 'First Called' and Ninth Circle - but my actual progress is about Fourth Circle, bucking for Fifth.  Why, I'm just beginning to get control of my own body. Patty is the only one of us who uses teleportation herself with any regularity... and I'm not sure she ever does it without Mike's support.  Oh, Mike says she's quite capable of it, but Patty is such a curiously naive and humble person for the genius she is that she is quite dependent on Mike.  Which she needn't be.  Jubal, I grok this: we don't actually need Mike - Oh, I'm not running him down; don't get me wrong.  But you could have been the Man from Mars.  Or even me.