"Not a confident one. I need to know a lot more about local conditions. I've been on this planet for just a few hours."

"Then it seems you would benefit from the company of historians, diplomats, and the like."

"Wouldn't hurt!"

"It's possible I'll be receiving diplomats myself, who are curious about you, once word gets out. I'll turn away anyone from Rice Fields, so long as Orochimaru's in power, but I have no excuse to turn away the Leaf, who will at a minimum be interested in Sasuke-san."

"I don't suppose 'he can go wherever he wants' will hold much water?"

"If they send my old team, I can talk to them. It's possible if I make it clear I'm willing to be an ally, and not planning on kids, they'll let actual loyalty go."

"Not everyone has actually discerned their own lifetime plans for having children when they are fifteen, but if you think saying you don't plan on it will be reassuring..."

"I think I can make a case for it."

"Are you reasonably confident Orochimaru didn't like, steal samples of you to clone or anything?"

"His cloning process isn't very good, and artificial insemination tends to have weird interactions with some bloodlines, including mine. Shinobi also miscarry a lot, and it's worse if the mother has a different bloodline than the fetus. He hasn't figured out artificial wombs. He definitely has some of my genetic material."

"Okay, let me know if you ever want me to check up on that but it's probably not happening this week then."

He nods, though he seems a bit more withdrawn. 

(It might not hurt, once he has the resurrection technique perfected, to find some resurrectees willing to raid Orochimaru's labs for him...)

"Okay, so, where's a good place to set up and receive diplomats and historians and get Karin the lost library she asked for and suchlike?" Cam asks the queen.

She pulls out a map, and indicates a place somewhat more inland. "The land's stable, here, but the soil's rocky enough we're not using it for agriculture. Still, it's on one of the major railways; adding a stop won't be hard."

"If you'd rather not be on a railway, here..." And she indicates a place more westerly, "Is outlands, too far from other concerns for us to bother with. You'd be butting up against the reindeer herders during the summer months, but they'll likely be willing to trade the edge pasture for a medical center nearer them. There's a summer port to the north, though most shinobi will come overland."

"Being on a railway sounds great."

"That simplifies things on our end as well..."

She asks for a simple demonstration of his power, next - names an innocuous document - then provides him with information on which model of heat generator is the current one, though notes they'll need time to clear out a warehouse for receiving ones for their own use here.

He demonstrates. "I can come around when you've got a space clear."

"It'll be easy enough to send a message. In the meantime, I want information on Orochimaru from Sasuke-san. That snake hasn't come up here much, but anything you can relay would help still."

"There's a lot. I'll put together a written report."

He has talked enough today.

"Very well."

"Speaking of sending me messages, you can just write things down and add 'letter to Cam'," (he makes a note of how he's translating that into the vernacular), "and I'll get it next time I check my mail, I can just conjure everything with that on it."

"Just in kana? How should we spell your name?"

"Characters are fine, I'll check both. I suppose it doesn't translate neatly. You could put 'swan', that's what my surname means."

"That works."

Cam makes a note of this.