"A view of the city please!"

He reaches behind the desk, where she can hear clinking and clonking, and then he extends his somewhat claw-like hand towards her, offering her a key.

"I hope you enjoy your stay in Neselthia's district. If you can, leave a gift for the next person to visit your room."

"Thank you! How do I find my room?"

"The key will light up when you're in front of your room! When you turn the key, it should fade. If you have any issues with that or anything in the room that doesn't work properly, I can fix that."

"Okay, but - where do I go looking?"

"Right. Here, just up those stairs, to your left, my right- keep walking and you'll find it. Also, I'm supposed to mention that you can use our baths, our cantina, and our courtyard if you need those things. The ki-rin says you're a prime, so you probably want to use the first two, at least."

I have asked some clarifying questions, and it appears that the baths may not meet plant alien chemical standards or Amentan pollution standards in some way, you may need to investigate them. Is sulfurous water a problem for you?

I don't know, but I can tell by looking. "Where do I find the baths, cantina, and courtyard?"

"The part of the palace that you walked through is the courtyard - the plants, the sand, all of it. Sometimes guest like to play there, or rest, or other things like that work better outdoors. The baths are the other side, behind the part of the building with the rooms, which you can get to by walking through that door behind me," he points, "to your left, my right. The cantina is through the door on your right, my left. Both the baths and the cantina have doors that lead out to the district."

"Okay, thanks!" She will go see what the cantina has.

The cantina has other people, for one thing. There is one man conversing with a person behind a counter dispensing food at a leisurely pace, as well as what seems to be a family with three children of varying ages: two that seem older than her, and one infant.

Intrepid, are all these people dead? Do dead children grow up? Is any of the food a) food for plant people b) blue, she wants to save her food coloring.

Most people in the Peaceable Kingdoms of Arcadia are dead, but some are native to the plane, and others visit. I cannot detect this simply by looking. If you see a child, it may depend on the age- dead children in Arcadia do grow up, but that is not the case in all Outer Planes...and it is true because people believe children growing up best fits our plane. If Amentans would expect something different, that may change if they begin to arrive in the Peaceable Kingdoms.

The food here does appear to be food for her, except for the meat. Very little of it is blue, however. She can see various foods in red, yellow, orange, purple, and green, but blue seems to be difficult to come by.

She'll take some purple food and some green food and nibble on it. I think Amentans expect children to grow up. But maybe it would be nice for them if we did it slower.

Then perhaps you will need to consider that while creating a government fit for Amentans and plant aliens. You seem to be assigning quite a momentous task to yourself, Lintalai. Are you certain of your ability to carry this burden?

Well, it would be nice if I were not two years old but I think I can probably do it anyway.

Perhaps if we could return you to your home, so that you could grow up with your fathers, and then you could return here, that would be better for you. Should that be our focus? What will be the best for your development?

I'm going to email them and see what they say, but I think they'll agree that I can't just leave an infinite habitable plane without figuring out how people can come here!

I understand. Your fathers seem wise, as do you.

You seem to have learned many languages for one so young. Are you a very good study at languages? I ask because I will soon wish to spend more of my time attending to other friends of mine, but you require my translation.

I knew three when I came to in my basket, and then my grandfather taught me Oahkar and I study Voan at school. I can learn this one too but I'll want books and a lesson in the alphabet and some basic words to start. Or maybe I could try expecting my pocket everything to know Celestial? That might work.

It may, at that. Focus on changing your beliefs about what would make a good afterlife- expectations contribute because they are beliefs, but of course, beliefs can include opinions about how the world should be. If enough people believed the Peaceable Kingdoms should be different than they are, their expectations would be over-ruled by that.

Books may be difficult to come by, but I will find you a teacher.

Although most of the plants which comprise her meal are not entirely unlike Amentan foods, there are differences in texture and flavor; notably, many of these plants have more complex flavors than those of her home. One dish might have both a bitter and a sweet flavor, while another has multiple sources of spiciness. Additionally, they seem even more filling than food from her home- for Lintalai, this means that she barely needs to eat anything at all.

These are pretty tasty plants. She tastes three things and stops there. She sits down and contemplates what would make this an ideal afterlife. Well, of course it's silly if people have to spend their afterlife learning languages if they don't like it, when living people can skip that and use machine translation. And she has a device here which can do machine translation for every language spoken by more than a couple hundred thousand people, and this is not a big city but there must be more than that many total speakers of Celestial, right.

She decides how she'd spell "Celestial" in Anitami and pulls out her pocket everything and scrolls through the language menu for it.

She finds it, as well as several other languages, whose names appear to have been transliterated into Anitami as well: Chessentan, Dhoraz, Infernal, and Ta'admarian.