"Oh, they might, but not in a way that makes them look, I think. Maybe if we got enough reds in that way, they'd bring some in from other countries and they could have a chance too."

"How would you claim you were dying?"

"Maybe a disease, it'd explain a lot of people dying at once. And discourage them from getting close to look."

"Lots of people die of diseases?"

"Not usually, but it could happen."

"Then that sounds like a reasonable solution, though I still think we could check whether the portal can be blocked, in case it can."

"Yes, that makes sense."

"Do you need anything else from us?"

"If people come here where will they go? What can they bring?"

"I can't think why they shouldn't bring anything that fits through the portal. They could live here or move somewhere else that suits them better."

"But there are open apartments? - they won't have any money, or, not money here -"

"You're right, we should have a fund to help people relocate."

"Where will the money come from?"

" - from our government."

"There are three million reds in Anitam."

"Do you have a sense of how many resources they'll need from the fund?"

"No - I don't know what your money's worth or how far it goes -"

"What do you think is a realistic amount of resources a family relocating might need? A year of food and rent?"

"That's - a season - uh - do we even need the same amount of food - how hard is it to get jobs around here -"

"It isn't very hard for Elves but I don't know if it would be harder for your species, if you are weaker or get tired easily or if there's lots of work you can't pick up."

"We might be. I don't know."

"Okay. Then we can do monthly payments that are enough to support new immigrants, and revisit that once we know more about which work suits you."

"We'll have to figure out how to decide who goes - we can do that on our end, I suppose -"

"It'd be important to us that everybody get the chance but I think it makes sense for you to decide details yourselves."

"It'll have to be slow so it matters who is first."