"I'm glad to hear it."

"And you'll be the first to hear of it once we've got it."

"I'm glad to hear it," she says, smiling. "It's probably a good thing you landed in Kilauiossa, first. Most of our neighbors would probably be more difficult to work with. Of course, I could be biased."

"You seem much much easier to work with than we were anticipating as typical, so if so we are biased also."

"I expected that making myself easy to work with would pay off, and I was right," she says, a little smugly.

"Well, we're going to try to make nice things even for people who didn't have the good sense to be born under a good queen, but - yes, being easy to work with helps quite a lot."

"To be fair, my predecessor was terrible and many of my subjects have been alive longer than I've been in power," the empress points out, "but yes, of course."

"I am actually kind of surprised government works when everyone dies so quickly. You'd be leaving a lot to chance."

"Governments generally don't last as long as yours has when everyone dies so quickly," she admits.

"Well. We're working on it. ...we'll probably have it a while before we can scale it, I don't know if making good rulers immortal is a good way to distribute it when we've got very little of it but it seems like a plausible one..."

"Making people immortal who are more likely to be able to help with the scaling part," she suggests.

"Think dreamshapers can do resurrection if you live long enough?"

"I don't see why not."

"That would be pretty excellent."

"It would," she says. "Of course, then we'd need a system set up to handle people returning like that, and somewhere to put them--population density is going to start being an issue very quickly if people stop dying--"

"This planet's population could grow quite a lot with modernity - planets this size stably host ten or twelve billion - but then we'd have to get you to the stars, yes."

"Ten or twelve billion is good news," she says. "It's going to take us quite some time to get there with only immortality and a rate of resurrection we'd be capable of dealing with as a society."

"I imagine so, yes. And you're not that far off star-travelling, although without demons living anywhere other than Earth is a lot more hassle than just visiting there. Cam can fix up some other planet in your star system."

"Perhaps he should talk to some astronomers about which one."

"That sounds lovely. - did you still want that forensic conjuration done -"

"Yes, please."

"Do you know what you're looking for in particular?"

"I would like to know what exactly caused the explosion, and I would like to know what happened to the daughters."

"I actually think I have some insight into the second; some twin human girls stumbled on us a while ago. I don't know how common human twins are but vanished ones can't be common. The explosion we can freeze-frame -"

"...How long have you been here?"