Stabbing is cooler. She takes the needle and hops onto the bus.

She will still have nine shiny tokens to spare! 

When the bus is full it abruptly vanishes. It appears somewhere else, with a butterscotch sky. The air is warm and dry. They are herded off the bus and into a big tall atrium with white walls, open to the sky. There are vendors selling food at the edges of the atrium, and people bustling all about.

Coooool.

OK. Focus. She has to find something that'll convince Catherine to leave Scandinavia. Food is cool but not gonna do it. She looks around to see what else there is.

The streets are wide and have paths for various tiny wheeled vehicles, which people are using to zip around. There are staircases descending underground every block or so. The first floor of most of the buildings looks to be restaurants and game stores and clothing stores and coffee shops and play areas for children and a yoga studio and a climbing wall and an urgent care and a gym and a dog grooming shop; the upper floors look to be residences. Every few blocks there's a park. 

Most of these humans are dressed outrageously immodestly and some of them are of ambiguous gender. 

Near the bus stop there's an information booth that keeps announcing loudly, every few minutes, 'this is an information booth'.

Information booth it is!

"Hi! Can I help you?"

"Hi! I'm trying to convince my aunt to come here, but she doesn't wanna mess up diplomatic relations between Scandinavia and Vanda Nossëo, so I gotta bring her back something really impressive. Also how did all the wizards get their magic, and can I have magic too?"

"Huh, that sounds like you want a social worker probably, I can walk you there? It's just around that corner. There are a lot of kinds of magic. Some are free, like the boxes of songs, and some you have to pass tests for and prove that you're very qualified, like driving a shuttlebus. A flashlight isn't technically magic but you could buy one of those and they're very like magic, they can make bright light any time just by pushing a button."

"I want the magic healing. And invisibility! But if you have more than four kinds of boxes here then I wanna see the other boxes, too."

"For healing and invisibility you go on a waitlist and do an interview and for healing the people who get priority are people who promise to use it to heal people in need for the next ten years. I don't think you should promise that, you don't know all the other ways you could spend your time! I can put you on the waitlist for invisibility, though, what's your name?"

"Vigdis Yngling, Princess of Scandinavia."

She pulls out a sheet of glass and taps it rapidly. "They'll get back to us in a couple minutes and tell us how long the waitlist is and how you can move up it if you want. Did you want to go see a social worker about your aunt?"

"I dunno what a social worker is, but I guess."

"One of their jobs is to help people resettle." She starts walking. "Why do you want your aunt to move?"

"'Cause she's miserable, but she's too bad at things to go be somewhere less miserable without any help."

"It's a good thing she has you looking out for her! Do you know where you want to live?"

"Nah, I dunno anything about Vanda Nossëo except that you don't have slaves and you have televisions and magic stuff and an army of unkillable wizards."

"I guess those are good things to know. There are hundreds of planets but this one is set up to be good for people coming from your world - for example, it doesn't assume any literacy, and it doesn't have any nonhumans, and it should have a justice system you'll find comprehensible. Do you have a mom or a dad?"

"Yeah. My mom's dead but I have a dad."

"Are they going to come to, or just your aunt? Does your aunt have children?"

"She's got five kids not counting me. I think we don't want my dad to come, on account of he's an evil tyrant who sacrificed mom to Odin. And also he's the Emperor of Scandinavia."

"I'm really sorry to hear that." They round a corner. "Have you already requested a resurrection for your mom, or not yet?"

She should just give up on trying to impress this guy with the drama of the situation. "Nah, Amoli said you could resurrect people but she didn't say how."

"It takes two powerful magic users working together. We can't do it enough to get everyone who dies yet but the social worker can help you put together an application."

"All right. Can I get the resurrection magic?"