"And I'm trying to hold off on that until you have an afterlife system. I don't know what else you want me to do."

"...well, your afterlife system might already have killed somebody, if someone worries that brand new aliens deciding whether they should go to Hell or not might decide that yes, they should, and they ought to get a jump on avoiding that. There hasn't been a statistical bump in suicides but I'd be surprised if that was literally nobody."

"Sure, and there isn't anything I can do about it. - this is going nowhere. You have my email; let me know when you've made a decision." He intones a few words and disappears.

James does not send him another email, at least not right away.

It's probably a good thing he has that trip to the spa planned for this afternoon; he could use it. He does his spellcasting rounds and has his ride drop him off there.

It's a beautifully landscaped spa! There are massage tables and therapy pools and hot tubs outside among the pretty landscaping, in addition to the building. The receptionist doesn't recognize him. "Good afternoon! How can I help you?"

"I'm meeting someone - I've forgotten his name, starts with L, a fairy - but I think I'd like a massage, while I'm here. Or I'll take a suggestion; I've had a stressful morning, whatever you have that's good for relaxing."

"Fairies often don't like the hot tubs - they have to pay too much attention to keeping the water off their wings - so you won't meet your fairy there, but they're relaxing. I'm afraid I can't give out specific client information but I can take you on a tour of the place and you can keep an eye out for him and anything you'd like to try."

"That sounds good, thank you. - fair warning, I suppose, I might be recognized. I don't mind if anyone wants to talk to me but it might slow us down."

"All right, thank you for letting me know. Let's put down your deposit." She has a payment thingy like stores do; it takes Pear.

Boop! And they can be on their way.

The building is a ring around the artificial hot springs in the center. He can get various sorts of massages, nail and hair care, assorted skin treatments - the air everywhere smells like things, wood and flowers and vanilla and lemon - there's the fairy getting his toenails painted.

He'll just get one of everything, maybe, seems to be his conclusion about the tour. He heads over when he spots the fairy. "Hi!"

"Hey you! You look super not mauled by a bear. How you doing?"

"Good! I don't know how much news you get out in the woods but everyone's excited about the new magic." He settles on the next chair over. "I really appreciate your help with that."

"I don't hear much. When I go home I can catch up with stuff on a delay, there's a bounty in Fairyland for extranet dumps and some fairies work for those. Usually doesn't take more than a couple days to get a fresh update."

"Well, I've had two television interviews so far and they've got me bopping around curing cancer and letting humans fly under their own power. Lots of fun. I heard from Fharlanghn, too - it wasn't him, actually, but he's working on figuring out how to get here; could be any day now."

"Sounds fun!"

"Mmhmm. And how've you been? Didn't get into any trouble over me or anything, I hope."

"Nah, it was all right. Saw baby bears the other day!"

"Aww. Maybe I should see if I can find a druid who'd like to come work with you, once I can get back to my world - they're a bit like clerics but with nature magic, they can talk to animals. You can let your boss know I offered, if you think she'd be interested."

"I'll tell her! She'll wanna know about the nature magic even if she doesn't wanna hire any."

"Sure thing - I have a blog, now, my email's on it, I'll send her my notes if she emails me."

"Alrighty."

"All right. And you can email me too, of course. But I'll let you get back to your day."

And how about that one-of-everything?