"- I should probably discuss with you before I overthrow any governments."

"I agree."

"But not right now."

He pops back.

"That was fast."

"The travel's instantaneous we were just debating whether he should come meet you all."

"And what'd you decide?"

"I said I probably shouldn't overthrow governments without talking it over with him but that didn't have to be now. He doesn't speak any Portuguese anyway."

"I do speak English," she says in that language with only a slight accent.

    "Me, too," says Bernardo.

John and Jade, ironically, don't.

"And I have magic translation and speak everything. Do you want me to get Maitimo?"

"That would be lovely, yes."

Pop. "They speak English and do want to talk to you."

"Okay." He squeezes Epic's hand. 

Pop.

"—for some reason I expected all of you to have wings. It's a pleasure to meet you Maitimo, I'm Mônica, these are Jade and John, this is Bernardo."

"Nice to meet you! The wings are because of some of Epic's magic - the ability to make arbitrary material objects is associated with the wings, where we're from - and I have no magic powers at all, having been created here five days ago."

"—ah huh. How did that happen?"

"I'm a species Epic can make. When he realized this was - a complicated situation requiring more resources than he'd managed to amass - he decided to make some of us. Technically fork some of us from existing versions at home."

"I see. And he's told you the executive summary of the situation?"

"He did. If it changes any of your planning we sincerely expect to have contact with this world by the end of the year and after that all of your governments will have to function given the capacity of all your citizens to leave at any time for nice alien-run places."

"So your sincere advice right now is 'do nothing for another few months'?" asks Bernardo curiously.

"I don't have enough details. But if the doing is likely to cause a lot of damage and the harms are mostly ones that would be hard to swiftly alleviate even if you succeed, then yes."

"While your—appearance—is more than Epic's say-so, it's still a lot to ask."

He nods. "What do your plans look like?"

"We do not currently have plans beyond trying different things to inform the people and hoping someone who triggers a power that can work around Awe."

"Who's that and what do they do -"