Nod. "Any chance we could get permission to take our ship there?"

"Hm. Depends on what sort. Craft that ride low in the water aren't allowed, the bay's fairly shallow, and neither are ley ships."

"It's a flying ship."

"...How?"

"We use buoyancy by means of lighter than air gasses?"

"So it's not magic," she clarifies.

"Ah, yes."

"That might be allowed. We'll need to send for permission, and my supervisor might want to look at your ship to make sure it doesn't have any weapons."

"That sounds reasonable. How about personal powers?"

"Not a concern, unless they have major destructive capabilities, which is pretty rare. I think the border agents handle those as they come up, and scrying catches most major problems before they happen. We just prefer to minimize the necessity of intervention, and it's easier to catch magical effects."

"Alright, we really only have one person with destructive potential. She affects gravity around her."

" - That probably won't even work within the city or anywhere inhabited, or possibly in the entire country, the shield protects against those sorts of effects."

"Okay, how long until we can get a permission? Is there a fee?"

"Not sure. Depends on how busy the office in Amadahni is. Might be a day. There's no fee for calling, but there'll be one for docking in the city."

Nod. "Thank you."

"You're welcome. Did you need anything else?"

"I'm not sure you're qualified - or even responsible - to give us advice in case there is trouble because we are literally from another world and might do something stupid because things are so different here that no one would understand why we act weird around water (in our world it melts people, yours doesn't affect us)."

"...Do you want an overview of our laws or something? You don't have to worry about catastrophes here, they're handled by the fire-net, but there are also more individual problems it's possible to meet."

"We already got an overview from some helpful locals. I'm just trying to cover all our bases."

"Fire-net?"

"That's good. And for the fire-net...There's - the rituals, that protect the nation. They're tied to the sacred fires. The rituals cast the fire-net, which ensures that the gods will intervene if anything catastrophic tries to happen."

Nod. "...I'm not sure it might relevant that our species have different shapes, but we do. Changing between them is gross and we are recognizable though."

"I'm not sure that's likely to come up, there's more'n a few shapeshifters."

"I think that is all then."

The secretary can't think of anything else, either.