"I'm not sure they shouldn't! Depending on the security on their end, I guess. Fairies seem very dangerous."

"Yes, but they want nothing to do with us, so there's that?"

"Yes, it could definitely be worse. Speaking of which, I think we should stop looking for worlds for a bit."

"Yeah, I was saying to Rirosseth that this does seem to be a principled reason to go exploit rather than explore. Though we should go ahead and keep our appointment with Bella probably."

"Agreed."

"I wonder why she lives with them."

"I wonder if she can leave or if she's stuck there. It'd be really hard to give up sarcasm and whatnot."

"She didn't seem to be urgently trying to figure out if she could leave."

"I wanna know where she was before that was so much worse."

"Well, maybe she'll write and we can ask all these questions."

"I want lunch."

He gestures at a servant. 

"Amentans, you still leery of human comestibles?"

"No reason not to err on the side of caution while we have you. I'll take a copy of what I had for dinner on the day of the last glass festival."

"I'll take whatever they're serving today at Cartier's."

And everyone can have lunch.

When Cam checks for a letter, it's pretty long. The gist boils down to:

- You can reply by leaving return letters on the floor near the gate, I'll check for them every subjective couple of weeks, maybe less often when I think you're all asleep.
- If I shouldn't wander around your building while fast for some reason please say so.
- Don't tell any fairies you meet but you can all call me Promise. Perhaps for the first half an hour after your reply you could all wear nickname signs so I know what to refer to you by amongst ourselves.
- What was the deal with being willing to murder one of you, that's seriously weird.
- Tell me all about magic.
- Also tell me all about alternate universe versions of people.
- There is a person with whom I am entangled in a way I can't just square. If I can get clear of her I might be able to speed up and slow down relatively conveniently whenever I like, which would be nice. Presuming we get ahold of her would it be possible for me to employ you in getting her dead and then resurrected to see if that works on this kind of entanglement?
- Here are a bunch of things I can do with sorcery, which seems to work in your world, if that's ever important.
- Do not wander around where I'm from. Don't even talk to people there. The tail risk downside potential is even worse than what you ran into spying on Lohte and that could have horribly killed hundreds of people.
- I keep running into wanting to do stuff for people around here and not having a way to absorb the debt and not wanting to be that entangled. It has been proposed that I could buy prisoners off people but I don't have a great idea for what to do with random prisoners, do you?

"Sounds like a you."

"She ideally shouldn't run around in the palace, there's various detection up that might see her and people will panic, and I'd really rather not have gates directly here. She can run around the city as much as she wants."

"It sounded like there is in fact a gate directly here and she can open it whenever she wants and will be doing so to read return messages."

"Yes. I am not thrilled about this. I don't know if it's possible to close it or anything, but I would rather that our base of operations on this world not be in the palace, long-term, and that there not be a gate directly between here and fairyland."

"Well, I can mention this in the reply."

"You should give me and Annie computers like yours, we're humans and have fewer scarce powers."

"Annie won't even have to teach it a foreign language. All right. There's a learning curve though and Promise will need the letter on paper."

"I'll write it on my everything and you can be a printer later."