But like you can cure all your diseases with it anyway?

Oh, yeah, diseases don't take much magic at all.

So I'm not gonna go only-two-of-the-moons-are-real lunatic on little stuff.

Oh, no, the side effects take a long time to build up, and they don't work like that. There are three kinds of magic, and they each require a different frame of mind, and they sort of--push you farther into that frame of mind.

Oh, that sounds a lot less scary.

Yeah, I guess I phrased it pretty alarmingly. Sorry.

For the record our planet only has one moon.

Are you sure?

Pretty sure! I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim otherwise. And it'd complicate the tides something awful.

Little moons don't do much to tides.

Makes sense.

Anyway I'll let you know when I get my discharge.

I'll look forward to it!

She does not get it very soon.

Illia continues socializing with her sister when she's on break from food production and sending Peka small-talk-y emails. She makes preliminary inquiries to the Tapai government about the possibility of going to Orvara to talk to theologians.

The Tapai government could also invite some theologians here.

It seems like it would be simpler for Illia to go to Orvara.

Does she speak Orvaran? She'd need someone to accompany her on the plane.

Machine translation seems pretty impressive.

For writing, yeah, hard to hold a verbal technical conversation in it. What's the problem with inviting theologians to Tapa?

Well it sort of seems like Tapa is trying to act proprietary of them.

Tapa's relying on Odette for food security and would like to be able to keep track of her sister if they can meet her needs locally.

...Mm. Alright, importing the theologians works for now.

They host a theologian conference! It's short notice but theologians will come.

Theologians will discover the existence of magic aliens!

That's fascinating! It has all kinds of implications. (Theologians deal with pollution but also seem to have opinions on relationships, being a good member of your caste, sleep schedules, childrearing, and other miscellany.) They're very curious.

The Tapai government blue who has been the sisters' liaison says quietly that they're going to have more trouble restraining the journalists after this.