"The Harmonium punishes criminals and tries to enforce the laws. It doesn't always work, but they usually help all the kingdoms since no one really wants to be police."

"Why doesn't anyone want to be police?"

"Nobody really wants to punish anyone, except the Harmonium? So if you do want to be police, you would just go to the Harmonium's camps and get trained to be them."

"Oh, I see. What are the punishments like, that varies a lot on Amenta."

"You pay a fine or spend time in jail. How much money or how much time depends on the crime."

Nod nod. "A lot of stuff is like that in Anitam too."

"Would you want to do something different for your kingdom?"

"I think I should try to get my dads' advice on that. And get more information so they can give me more informed advice. I'm not sure about it myself but I have an idea what I need to know - how often the crimes are committed and why and whether Amentans here will wind up more law-abiding and how colonists'll be screened."

Nod nod.

"Someone might know all this for the Kingdoms of Arcadia already, about how much crime we have. I don't know that. I think we should talk to the bodyguard about what they would do for you, and we should ask the divination magic person to tell us some things but not hire them because we don't have lots of money yet."

"What things do you think we should specially ask the diviner?"

"Um, I'm not sure. I don't know a lot about magic the way mages do it. I think asking about the future is harder than asking about the present, though, so if there's something far away that we should find out sooner, that would be the best question. What do you think Amentans would need to know about a place before coming there?"

"- that it's infinite and habitable. That'll do it. If it's infinite - we won't need population controls -

- I mean it's still a good idea for them to show up reasonably well-informed about what the laws are and what they should bring and stuff."

"Oh. That's fair. Okay. So we should find out if there's any more big surprises- like Buxenus not having inns, or the law against advertising- that would bother people from Amenta. What would make Amentans not want to live in a place? Will we need more than one kingdom, or can you take all of them?"

"Amentans won't want to live in a place if it doesn't season, but I think expecting it to have seasons should work here. It would probably be good eventually to have more than one country - maybe not all kingdoms, I think I might as well be a monarch under the circumstances but some people really like democracy. They won't want to live here if it's polluted but I think the magic rivers and stuff help a lot."

"-huh. That's good. Is, um, could you say that first sentence again but without your pocket everything? You used a lot less words to say it in your language than I heard it say."

"...I haven't learned that much Celestial but I can say it differently? Amentans will want it to have a spring and summer and fall and winter - because if it doesn't they'll feel like it's spring all the time and they don't want that. - I guess maybe it would be okay since it's infinite though and they can have all the babies they want."

"Feeling like spring would have to do with babies?"

"Oh! Uh, adult Amentans can only conceive children in spring. Also then they want to have a lot of sex and they get really sad if they are not going to in fact have a baby that spring."

"Oh. That's weird. We're like that all the time only less sad about it, I think, and no one from the Kingdoms can have kids. Maybe people on the Prime Material Plane are sadder but since they can have kids it's okay, I'm not sure. We should find that out too. And for castes, since aliens don't have castes, is that going to be fine? Will Amentans still trade with us, or can they just do everything so they won't?"

"I think Amentans will still trade with people who don't have castes but they do currently live all by themselves on their planet so they know how to do everything they need."

Nod.

Daernir has a lot of questions about caste (because it seems like something they should implement in the Kingdoms of Arcadia), but he isn't going to ask until he knows more about how they already do things here. He is beginning to regret not having learned so many more things.

"Okay. We can at least offer magic and things like that. Should we go look and see if the people we want to meet are in?"

"Yeah, let's check."

They can check, and they find the bodyguard in her room! She listens attentively to whatever it is that Lintalai has to say, when Daernir makes it clear that he considers her the local authority. The bodyguard stands in her doorway, looking expectantly at the clear leader of these children.

"Hello, my name is Lintalai! I am in the information gathering stage of trying to found a colony to bring billions of people from my home planet over to. I don't have any security here in Arcadia yet."

This earns her a raised eyebrow. Daernir's vigorous nodding barely seems to put a dent in the skepticism.

"Alright. How much will it pay?"