It seems they're both being generous.

Well, she'll need him to hold the door, then. Assuming he does so, she can cast the spell. Is there anything for it to latch onto? 

The door opens to a large hut, a very weird hut made of clear frosty crystal, wood and leaves. Some of those materials look melded together. And through windows she can see other people, more two of the man holding the door to her, three more of a strong blond man, and three people - two woman and a man - with no duplicates in her immediate sight.

The spell... does not latch onto anything. Henry sighs.

He's not the only one who's disappointed. 

"...There's still Milliways," she tells him, patting his shoulder, "So many people have come in and out since I got here. There must be someone who can help you." 

"We didn't expect to be that easy all things consider." He tells her. "Don't worry, people!" He yells at others before closing the door.

Nod.

Well, they should at the very least be able to trade them some more food? The Bar sells it, along with drinks.

She's not sure about materials and medicine. That likely depends on where the others' doors let out - hers lets out into her bedroom, so she'd have to go through a wall to get anything outside of it. There is an infirmiry, though, if anyone has immediate need of medical attention - and Patiri has a healing spell, as well. 

Isteri just moved in and has the house for herself, most of her stuff is in boxes, but the move offers a excuse for them to have vanished. And she has blue-levels of money, so she can fund things. And after a bit of negotiating, they settle on paying with a combination of money (put on the bar's tab), clothes and some Assemble furniture. She eventually decides to learn the crystal magic, but she looks obviously queasy about it.

That's reasonable, and Henry will go through the series of mental exercises that enable the crystal magic use.

She's glad they manage to work something out. She is a little concerned by Isteri pushing herself into this - she doesn't find the idea of it very pleasant, either, but Isteri seems worse off than she is. 

Lia listens to his lesson and attempts to perform those exercises. Are they more successful in this area than she was her attempt to use the Clairvoyance spell for him? 

Yes, they are, after a few minutes, the crystals react to their will and after a few more minutes they manage to get to prickle their skin, which greatly increases the easy and control over the crystal's growth.

He then spends most of the remaining time trying to give them a well round educations on the various branches of the magical craft. It will probably take a long time before they manage to do anything but copying the basic materials of things, but they should eventually figure out how to get empowered crystals out of people and how to copy complex objects (such as people, which can be used for healing).

Oh good! Access to this magic will fix so many problems. Hers in particular, assuming they can sell what they make. Someone in their group must have some idea of how to manage that without looking too suspicious, though. 

Isteri can set something up, if no one comes up with a better idea. She tries very hard to not poke at the tiny bit of crystal under her arm. They thank their benefactor profusely.

They are welcome, but now if they don't mind, teaching three people at once was kinda tiring and he needs some rest.

Understandable. Lia thanks him as well, and offers her hopes that he and his people will find someone who can offer them the help they need.

(She does poke at the crystal a bit, or, she runs a finger over it lightly. Strange, somewhat unsettling, yet also somehow pretty.)

Once he's gone, she turns to the other two Amentans, asking after the brainstorming they'd done while she was talking to Henry. 

They have mostly been taking notes of their Amenta-bound resources. Specially doors and contacts.

Isteri's door is in her new home, which is currently empty, her husband is away and staff yet to arrive. Her security team is outside, which means they should be able to stash things in the house, maybe even people, if the need arises, but leaving would draw attention from her bodyguards. She has full confidence that her bodyguards can keep her safe from assassination attempts, but less so with a secret like this.

In term of contacts, she is weary of getting her parents evolved, but she will be willing to do so, and... well, you don't get to lead a multi-year campaign against blue corruption without having contacts first.

They haven't decided if they want to go public with this, not without talking with everyone first.

Patiri's door is her apartment, which she shares with a roommate that can't possibly be trusted to keep low-level gossip - let alone matters of national security - a secret. They can probably find a way to get rid of said roommate, but it might take some doing, first.

On the plus side, the apartment is rather close to the university where Patiri works and there is a blue friend of hers that is in there and that they may contact for help.

Do they have any idea where Mura and Istevi's doors lead?

No clue, they arrived before Patiri did.

She did overhear Zofin say something about a university's archives and maybe that's where Zofin's door is.

That could be useful for getting people in and out, so long as the door itself is somewhere out of the way. Did they want to see if Zofin and Mura will accept messages? They could ask about their doors, then, and about their opinions on going public. 

They haven't tried yet, but they are working on the message. Isteri wanted to talk to Istevi first, but Patiri suggested that they - not Patiri herself, but the other two - might prefer not to include Istevi in any plans. Does Liarae have any opinions on going public?

...Not really. She really doesn't trust her judgement on something this big. Secrecy or publicity is fine with her, so long as she can still get a credit out of this one way or another. 

(She can see how not involving Istevi too much might be a good idea, yes, at least for now.)

Patiri and Isteri nod gravely. "I think you two should each approach one of them to talk? Or at least I - and definitely not Istevi - should interact with either. Not for the next while."

"Alright. Any idea which ones each of us should talk to? I thought I might talk to Mura, since if she blows up again I can probably handle her." 

That's reasonable, Isteri will get Zofin then. She shares Mura's room number with Lia.

So Lia goes looking for the room in question. And, once she finds it, she knocks. 

Long silence, then. "Who is there?" Asks a tentative voice.