Eventually, cautiously, she brings DZ out, too.

Amentans sometimes wonder or even ask if she is a person kind of robot but don't have trouble with the concept.

Good.

The sensor experiments come along nicely.

Everybody is very excited. The nineteen year olds with subsidized babies are happy! The future colonists are happy! The people who will get to move their children into the space the colonists will vacate are happy! The people who will be glad to see all the reds exiled to another rock forever are happy!

Pretty good time to be an empath, this. (She adds a section to her poetry library.)

How're things going internationally?

Everyone's making nice with Tapa, including the folks Tapa took that province from last year. Tapa's taking some of their money in exchange for consideration in the planets thing.

Seems reasonable to her, they are sinking a bunch of money into physics experiments and things. How're the international reds doing?

Anxious. The Tapai ones are reassuring them but in a kind of uncertain hedgy way.

Yeah, fair enough.

She posts to the local reds' social media site asking if they'd like her to stop by for an interview.

They think they will get in trouble if she gets close to them.

- in trouble with who?

Anybody with an interest in the aliens being clean.

Hm. Getting there without anyone knowing, she can probably do. Convincing the reds she's done that, on the other hand, is a little harder.

She has DZ look up social media sites for other countries anyway, and ask reds in major cities if they'd like a visit.

The ones outside of Tapa are even less willing to entertain Tapa's valuable alien.

This species.

Well, it's still not a bad idea to do an international tour, and if she's not going to be sneaking out to red districts, DZ can come too. Blues have any objections to that?

They would like them to have a security detail. They know she's a wizard but they don't want anyone getting ideas.

It's more likely she'll end up protecting the security than the other way around, but sure, she'll put up with some greys. (...would they like a demonstration of how she can stop bullets? In two entirely different ways, even.)

Sure, that will inform the security detail's tactics!

Well, telekinetic shield is like so - yes, she can cover the whole group with it - and then there's also the lightsaber method. Plus force-boosted reflexes and movement. She really wasn't kidding about Sith being more grey than anything else. And dangersense, and she can sense emotions well enough to probably tell that someone's planning to attack her even before that.

Cool. The security will mostly be for show then. Also some countries she might want to visit have rules about baiting people into committing crimes and "undefended-looking alien" might qualify.

As long as they're all on the same page.

So, which countries want an alien visit. No, wrong question: do any not?

All countries want an alien visit but Tapa strongly recommends skipping Calado and a handful of others.

Yeah - Calado would be an interesting challenge if she liked politics, but unfortunately for them, she does not.

She has DZ draw up an itinerary. ("This is an economics problem, isn't it." "Yup!" "Well, enjoy.")

And around the world she goes!

So many interviews! So many public appearances! (Not too many public appearances, though, DZ knows better.)