"Yep! The Muggles took it right to the top and Intal Neli came to the Councilet with a lot of video and said 'maybe talk to them' but the Councilet's ...dipping their toes in the water, first, this is your planet and all we'd really be able to do is advise and we don't know how it'd be taken."

"Some Imerina wizards volunteered to go bother whatshisface, the one who fancies he rules the world."

"Aitim Neli. He's not in charge of Anitam, this planet's sort of a secondary assignment."

"Hmph."

"Keeping our Muggles in line is the sort of thing we could advise on but, like I said, don't know how anyone would take it."

"I haven't been following it that closely. How do you keep them in line?"

"We have agreements with their government, all their internet companies are required to let the government censor them so we can keep anything out of the news, if they're annoying us in some repeatable way we ask for a law against it. They're very law-abiding, our Muggles, and they don't expect their laws to be very reasonable. If you really want a Muggle in particular and can't just seduce them you can tell the government and they'll arrange for them to be arrested for something, just can't do it on your own."

"How's getting them arrested help?"

"Oh, then you can take them home, they'll do a fake execution or whatever."

"Huh. Seems weird for the government to involve itself but I guess if you can't have anybody risking anything in front of a, wosscalled..."

"Camera. Yeah. And if a person's missing, they'll put tons and tons of effort into searching, reconstructing where they last were, interrogating everyone who ever talked to them, all that, it's hard to get anything past them."

"I don't like Muggles that much anyway."

"I don't know why anyone does it, honestly."

"I've got a friend who does, she says it's because nobody knows you've done it and they can't think you're loose and they'll do whatever you like after they're scared enough."

" - you could just, like, find that on a dating site, though."

"We haven't got those, you see."

"I guess that'd make it more appealing. Yeah, in Anitam she could just make a profile and say that's what she's into and she'd have no trouble unless she's super picky. Which I'm guessing not, because, Muggles."

"She's a little picky but not that much, no."

"Wonder if they could solve a buncha the problems here just, like, teaching people how to get laid without magic."

"I don't know how common it is."

She drinks her tea. "We wouldn't really care at all what happens on Earth - we're not the conquering type - except if people are too careless we get caught up in that, too."

"Makes sense. You going to talk to the International Confederation?"

"I think they want to watch and wait first. Then maybe."

Nod. "Heard you were offering immigrants titles?"

"We need immigrants! Different magical research, different knowledge, new blood, all of that. So, titles."