"Are both of those in this stack?"

"Nah, that's the legal code, our procedural documents would - take up more paper than this building has space for. Cam can print them for you if you'd like, though."

"That would be lovely, thank you."

"How do I pick out the bit that doesn't take up more space than the building...?"

"Why don't we look at the computer translations of the department of State support team protocols, that title last year, and the contact notes we worked on last month - see if they translate well enough to be handing out -"

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"Thank you. I'll probably be able to figure something out from this."

"We appreciate it. If we really need an entourage to get anywhere I'll go fetch one, they are just urgently occupied with a world that has more problems than yours."

"It's not a matter of consequence, mind, but of plausibility. If you have enough of a crisis going on elsewhere not to be able to spare more than two people, being able to spare the Crown Prince seems less likely. And there are going to be people who'd rather you had waited until your crisis was dealt with enough to be more, mm, respectful."

"Would they still feel that way if everyone currently on your planet could very well live to old age and die before that particular crisis is put away?"

"Plausibly not. But the immortality is a harder thing to swallow than the 'extreme foreigners' part."

"We could have a welcome gift of scale models of Tirion over the last several thousand years but that only settles the age of the civilization. We can act as appalled by mortality as we were when we first heard about it?"

"The former is unlikely to be considered proof by anyone who can conceive of being creative enough to invent those out of whole cloth. The latter is likely to offend."

"I"d offer to claim not to be a crown prince and to be sixty or something but it seems damaging to start out with an actual lie just to avoid being assumed dishonest."

"I could do an indestructibility demo, that's more demonstrable than immortality."

"I don't think you ought to lie, I thing you ought to not bank on your immortality being believed prior to you legitimacy as a representative of a foreign power. The 'only two of you' issue is--a constraint better worked around when you understand it, not an implacable obstacle that necessitates subverting."

"Understood."

"It'll help when my brother looks at your magic. He's--not well liked, but certainly well respected, in his field."

"How should we arrange that?"

"I'm going to go see him after work. You can come with me if you want."

"Will do."

"Excellent. Once you've got relevant persons convinced of your validity, but before you have an embassy and hospitals, do you have an idea of how you want or anticipate conversations happening?"

"...keep in mind that the embassy and hospitals will only take an hour or two. And I'd like to meet as many people as possible, in particular people who might be interested in working at the embassies."

"I meant 'between then and getting land for the embassy and permission for the hospitals,' not 'while these things were under construction.' Meeting large numbers of people is--doable, but you probably shouldn't tell them why you're here in large numbers before you're officially acknowledged; it would make it look like you were a conman trying to get random people to believe you rather than someone trying to go through official channels."

"Someone suggested we go to the University, will that work?"