"Everyone else just thinks you're a kid but angels know what's important. It's good that someone does. Do you think you can make a better kingdom now?"

"Probably! And it will help the angels too since pocket everythings do email and that's better than couriers."

"Someone should have done something sooner! But maybe since no one invented pocket everythings it would have been harder. I'm glad you came to Arcadia."

"Me too! I'll probably have solved everybody's problems forever by the time my dads are even sure I'm missing!"

Daernir looks at the sky.

"Should we start going back? I don't think we needed to do anything else in the city today."

"Yeah, that's probably a good idea."

"Do you still want to go back to Abellio? We might not have to, now, since we found that bulletin board in the library and you met an angel."

"I think the plausible places to put a colony were all in Abellio, right?"

"Yeah. We have to come back here to talk to all your new people, though. Do you want to look for a place to put your kingdom first?"

"I don't think we should go back to Abellio till we're done here, yeah. - I mean, you can if your parents expect you."

"-yeah. I sent them a message through the angel but it won't get there before I do. Will you still be staying at the spa in two days?"

"It's pretty comfy and all the people we're waiting on expect to find us there."

"Okay. I'll go back to see my parents and then I'll meet you there."

"Okay. Thank you very much for showing me around so far."

"No problem! Should I walk with you to the spa?"

Daernir doesn't specifically cite Lintalai's clumsiness, but honestly it's generally very concerning.

"If you don't mind."

So he walks her to the spa, and says goodbye, and then Lintalai is left to her own devices.

She sends another email to her family, though only a few minutes have gone by in Amenta and they will not be able to get her a reply that responds to everything so she tries to keep it very abbreviated in the main body of the email and have the rest of it mostly as optional attachments. Maybe she should start a website. But only after she has the go-ahead to publicize from Aitim and Kan, she decides.

She'd been going to talk to the Marduk priests more but first she needs a snack, she has been eating less than usual here.

The spa does offer some food: cucumber, lettuce, and celery are all available in relatively pure forms, while other vegetables have been used in meat dishes.

None of those are blue but maybe her hair will stay blue if she just expects it hard enough, and green wouldn't be the worst. She eats a celery stick and some cucumber slices and a lettuce leaf and then walks back to the temple.

The priest from before greets her.

"Hello. Welcome once again to our temple. I have yet to speak with Marduk."

"Okay. I did have another question I hadn't asked you before to add though."

Nod.

"Please, speak your question."

"Would it be possible for Marduk to protect more than one polity? If some people had a colony and their government was separate from his usual one."

"I have heard rumors of some cities on the Prime that he protects, and one in Acheron. However, I've never heard of him protecting a polity that wasn't his."