You send a short message of 25 words or less to a creature with which you are familiar. The creature hears the message in its mind, recognizes you as the sender if it knows you, and can answer in a like manner immediately. The spell enables creatures with Intelligence scores of at least 1 to understand the meaning of your message.

You can message across any distance and even to other planes of existence, but if the targes is on a different plane than you, there is a 5% chance that the message doesn't arrive.