"Where I'm from a lot of names have become unisex or gone from male to female over time but it's very rare for it to happen the other way."

"Huh, any that in my time are boys' names that are girls' names now -"

"'James' was the one that really threw me when I first heard of an actress called that, the others were things like Harper or Forest or whatever that I didn't have strongly associated in the first place."

"There's magic to change peoples' sex? I can imagine some people wanting that, if it makes you fertile -"

"It does! It's pretty expensive but we'll sell it to you. Can't take it while pregnant, you lose the baby. - I guess you have no reason to especially avoid that."

" - well, people don't want to lose their babies!"

"Right, sorry, but here it's quite Evil and that complicates policy."

"Huh, if this had somehow become available without the attendant multiversal magic and the opportunity to be a wizard and stuff... no, probably still wouldn't have changed anything, you can't swap grey through Miolee unless you know somebody and it's not like I had a pen pal somewhere abroad..."

"Hm?"

"Anitam is one of the relatively rare countries in which caste is patrilineal so if I just avoid dating greys, which I'd probably do anyhow, my kids don't have to be."

"I'd go for it, if it was affordable, Kan and I could have genetic kids."

"I am extremely unwilling to be a woman and not just because they don't have very many rights here."

"I've tried different bodies. Don't like them much."

"I would not like to be a woman and they do have rights here."

"Do not want to be a man even though they have rights up here."

"Both are fine!"

"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."