Corenta welcomes her! Abstractly.

Presumably the shren house in Corenta will welcome her and her sister (and their mother, who comes along in a non-mage role) somewhat less abstractly.

Yep, Jensal called ahead and explained, babies are this way, light's already here, come come.

Oh, these poor babies. Fly, babies, fly.

The babies fly, they fly! They swarm the nice magic humans!

The nice magic humans will, unfortunately, have to take the magic off their wings to go deal with the babies at the last house. Or were they going to be brought here...?

The Corenta house doesn't have anyone who can teleport there, but the magic humans are welcome to wait here for a delivery of babies once the Kep Island wizard has been to both locations and can teleport between them.

Wouldn't it be more efficient to teleport them there?

It's cold there. Also the house operator would need special permission from the dragon council to have shrens in natural form above water.

Cold is not so much a problem because magic but please explain this dragon council.

They are sort of a supplementary ruling body over dragons. Shrens aren't dragons, of course, but dragons are the people who are in danger of contagion if shrens are contagious in unexpected places, so there's a system for the dragon council to make sure no one's in danger if that's happening.

Is there any particular reason not to include shrens under the Genoshan word for dragon? The concept of dragonhood in the twins' home world does not require flight. Shrens are contagious?

Well, they suppose if the concept includes diseased reptiles with present but nonfunctional wings, Genoshans can call shrens that. And yes, if a dragon and a shren both in natural form are too close together, bam, two shrens. This is obviously not okay and they are very careful and it hasn't happened in so long.

A baby dragon getting turned into a shren does sound pretty terrible, yeah.

It's no fun for adults either. Anyway, the shren house locations are all designated okay places for shrens to be and teleportation doesn't cross the intervening space.

Losing the use of a pair of limbs at any age would probably be unpleasant, she acknowledges, it's just hard to be concerned about that comparatively lesser inconvenience while there are babies in large amounts of esu. How long is it going to take the wizard to get there?

A while. The place isn't near a teleportation circle.

Ugh. Fine. They can be swarmed by babies in the meantime, which is not ugh.

The babies are so cute and so grateful. They have claws but they are kind of soft and don't do much damage.

She can have some spillover swarm.

Why even are non-human babies this adorable to a human-brained person, it is delightful and evolutionarily mystifying.

It probably helps that they can all talk fluent Genoshan and do so in small chipper voices.

Baby voices are probably part of it, yeah.

It takes Ehail a while to get to Tenebirokalakmikikek's shren house, and then a while to get to the Corenta house, but once she has done that she ferries in babies.