"What, are we just going around the room talking about how more or less cisgendered we all are, don't we have anything important to do?"

"Pelape's got the note, when she sends that she can request a portal for her and Aitim, then we'll be making progress towards needing our dimensional transit hub."

"Where should I tell her to put that?"

"Are we going to use her gates instead of local ones for the whole thing?"

"They're lower opportunity cost and waiting a week isn't a big deal for us. And if we need to close one her turnaround time should be pretty good from our perspective."

"They might not be able to do the conditional access, in which case we'll still want a lot of the slower kind. But for a first secret gate back to your world I think we should use one of hers; I can't do a permanent one until tomorrow anyway. There's a place accessible from the palace where we do gates and teleportation circles; I can show you there."

"It's a good place for a permanent one too?"

"It's a good place for a very constrained permanent one for us to go back and forth; one with a bigger audience should go in the thing Cam's building."

"Where's that going to go? I'm expecting to need to add a reservoir - and a water treatment setup which I will double check with Pelape - and that's going to need some footprint even if the building's pretty vertically inclined."

"Ten miles from the heart of Sothis it's empty desert. Should be plenty of space."

"Sand? Of the dune-forming type?"

"Yes."

"Alrighty."

"Before you dive back into that you were going to give me and Annie computers like that."

"Oh right. Catch."

"Thank you."

"If we're done contacting new planes can you message my husband, let him know that we're not dead and have good prospects of being home safe soon -"

"Sure."

"Lemme give you my address, I still live with my folks."

"Alive. Home soon. In another dimension, all's well, buy an airport. Also present Pelape Milath - and then her address I guess -"

"500 Rose Stadium Towers, Lina."

"Buy an airport?" he says incredulously, but Sends this. 

"We'd have to borrow a ton of money from family but I think it's worth it."

"Will he pick a good airport on no further information? I guess 'in another dimension' is suggestive."

"Yeah, it's clearly an airport that will need retrofitting for interdimensional aliens. Also if we're really back tomorrow all he'll have time to do is get started on securing the financing."