Are you okay?

Yes.

Good. Should I put New York City back? I can do that while I'm singing.

Not yet. People should have a city plan this afternoon. I was helping, earlier, with the radiation.

Okay. How bad is the radiation?

Now, not at all. Even before, not as bad as it could've been. São Paulo will be uninhabitable for the next few hundred, perhaps thousands of years.

I could just scoop out most of the landmass of São Paulo and replace it. It's not the most efficient way but it should work fine.

- that would perhaps work, yes.

Should I do that?

This might frighten the Brazilian government, but the Brazilian government's peace of mind is not anywhere near my top priorities.

Okay. I could talk to them first if that'll help.

That could work.

Okay! Want to come with?

I'm not sure they will appreciate my presence. They are a dictatorship and their government-backed heroes defend the military oppression of their people. Relations between them and the US are—well, practically nonexistent.

...ah. Okay. I'll go put São Paulo back.

Good luck.

Thank you.

Pop.

No one's around but he's still singing.

No one is, in fact, around.

If it were dark, the wasteland that is the city would be glowing. As it is, it is merely uncomfortably warm, with ruins of what was once a sprawling metropolis larger than New York and no sign of Nature's normal process of reclaiming the land.

He flies around getting a sense of how far this extends.

It's over five hundred square miles of ruins or just uninhabitable land.

He conjures for people in the area just to make sure it actually is uninhabited.

No people in the area.

Okay.

A mile down should be deep enough.

He teleports out five hundred cubic miles of dirt and radioactive rubble and ruins. He adds the bedrock and dirt right back, up to the level where he'll do foundations of buildings.

And now he has to come up with what to put there. He feels like he can do better than putting back 1993's São Paulo but putting in an Elf city might be a bit obnoxious.

He can hear someone approaching in the distance.

...can he see them?