"Trust me, we have got a whole bunch of different ways. Radios, telephones, cell phones, tablets, a few people who're psychics, smoke signals back in the old west, letters we can still send now. People used messenger pigeons at one point!"

Her answer started wandering, going for the more abstract and absurd ways of calling people over a distance. "I guess we've got megaphones too, and some musical instruments are meant to have sound carry. If you know what a call is supposed to signal, then it works as a way of calling people to you. Whistles do that too," she added, lifting a hand to give in to her temptation to play at touching Simmaeri's massive head. "Mind if I touch you?"