"I wouldn't be very much of a nature goddess if I couldn't. The pictures are clever, though." Upendi huffs and flaps her ears. "She'd like ones for more kinds of plants and animals, she says."

"...we can do that."

"Good. And - she doesn't know enough personally to tell me, but it seems like there was a disaster here, a few generations ago? She says there's lots of things her grandmother told her were dangerous that don't seem dangerous to her, but she's worried about taking the risk - if that's cleared up I might want to bring some elephants from my world here to visit and talk to her about it."

"Uh, pre-Revelation there was ivory poaching? The market cratered after angels could just make it but it was really bad before that..."

"-that would explain it, yeah. It's all right, sweetie," she pats the elephant, "I can bring some friends to visit."

"They don't always get along with other elephants, do you have a way of managing that...?"

"I can make a guess about who they'll get along with, and stay to make sure. Knowing why the strangers are here and that they won't be staying helps, usually."

"Okay. Uh, what brings you here?"

"I'm trying to have at least a little bit of a look at everything, really. And elephants are delightful."

"I know I love 'em." She gives Upendi a treat. "People are saying we get an afterlife and they don't unless they piggyback on a human though."

"Yeah," she nods. "I'm talking to Boccob about it but it's pretty huge, to make an afterlife."

"You can't just fix ours?"

"I can't. I'm not sure he can either, but maybe. We probably need the goddess of the afterlives for it, though, and Pelor isn't letting us tell her about you yet."

"...why?"

"She might freak out about how yours work, I'm not sure. And she might tell people, and then you'd be in trouble, 'cause you don't have paladins or druids or wizards or anything to help if somebody powerful from our world decides to make trouble here."

"We've got daeva."

"That's not going to help much if something really magical gets mad at you. We're working on it, it's just going to take a little while."

"...how much more magical than daeva can you get? I mean, everybody heard about Ganymede but a daeva could have done a jailbreak if they were loose and wanted to murder a bunch of people."

"I don't think our really magical creatures are more magical than daeva exactly - I mean, gods are, but that's its own problem, I mean the kinds of situations where a spellcaster helps - we have creatures that can only be hurt by magic, and what daeva do isn't the right kind of thing."

"Huh."

"Yeah. They're not common, but it's a really big deal when they get loose, we wouldn't want one here without a good way to deal with it. Or, like, at all, really, but especially then."

"A fairy could chuck it into space. Unless it can teleport I guess."

"It wouldn't surprise me if they can. It's not really my area, Pelor handles that kind of thing."

"And you hang out with elephants and stuff?"

"Mmhmm! All kinds of animals and fae creatures. I'm really looking forward to bringing some unicorns here, they're going to love it."