"Yes. I'll ask the folks who are crashing here to nominate someone to summon Mrindeh."

"Alright. What about you, if Sasuke dies?"

"I'll leave a circle for me with whoever's summoning Mrindeh and have checkin arrangements."

"We might want to spread out who's summoning whom, in case of a wide-spread cataclysm. And so that not only one national power has summoning."

"Do you have a candidate in mind?"

"No. I don't know anyone modern."

"So a Snow person in the short term, but I'll keep an eye out for other good places to leave circles."

"Sasuke might know anyone, but the majority of his acquaintances are likely shinobi themselves."

"What percentage of the population are? It seems like so many but it can't be, right, you aren't high tech enough to do without a ton of people doing boring stuff like farming and manufacturing."

"We didn't have a census in my time, but shinobi are a distinct small minority."

"And just kind of live in a bubble, gotcha."

"The shinobi population of the Leaf was a fourth the village's total population, but the Leaf was a military town."

"And the ninja all live in ninja villages unless they're doing the disreputable nomad thing so the whole rest of the country is regular folks?"

"That seemed to be the trend in my time, yes."

"All right. So in principle there are loads of people who can summon - Mrindeh's probably going to make friends with random neighbors, if someone gets Sasuke but not whoever summons her she can give them a circle for me -"

He nods. "And spreading summoning farther trades off against secrecy and containment."

"Yeah. It's inconveniently much easier to do an unsafe summon than a safe one. I'm not safely summoned, I'm just being nice about it."

"That's a risk too, yes."

Cam writes to a clone and the clone goes and asks Mariko if there's anyone she'd recommend for summoning Mrindeh who's less in the line of fire than Sasuke may be.

"There's someone in the university, a professor I'm familiar with, who lives an exceptionally boring life, isn't near any major fault lines, could be evacuated easily, and would be unlikely to be swept up in any violence?"

"Sounds perfect, should I go to her - I can do clones now - or would it make more sense for her to come here?"

"Either works! I can send you with an explanatory note?"

"Sure, thank you!"

That can be produced fairly quickly, then, as well as directions to the relevant university department, and the professor's name.

A clone flies in to meet the professor.