Grilbek considers that perhaps he should have taken any interest in Lintalai Arcadia as a person, but immediately disregards that in favor of this conversation.

"Yes. Lintalai told me- Lintalai came to Arcadia from Amenta. Amenta has castes- blue, green...other castes, other colors, I don't remember what Lintalai said about castes. Lintalai and I did not speak often. Lintalai and I spoke before I came here, to Shi Cubrio. After I came to Shi Cubrio, I spoke about Afen Kisantami. I, Grilbek, came here, and after I go to Anitam with Afen Kisantami. Should I call you 'Afen', or 'Kisantami', or 'Afen Kisantami'?"

"Arzumian people one 'Grilbek', Anitami people two 'Afen Kisantami'. Anitami people honor to meet Arzumian people, speak what you told me - speak what you did tell me? speak what you tell me?"

Oh! Grilbek sees the logic, and proceeds to correct various sentences for Afen- while trying to urge him to hopefully lead him out of this place and towards Anitam?

Shi Cubrio would like to send the alien to their Anitami embassy with a Shi Cubrio escort and retain formal custody until their respective governments work something out as suitable recompense for the alien.

That sounds like the sort of thing politicians will work out, Afen is fine with that as long as he can stay with the alien and talk about the language some more.

That's fine.

Grilbek can do numbers, and can convey concepts like 'governments' and 'peace' and 'law' and 'wizard' (this one takes a while).

Amenta government want wizard very badly! Anitam very happy that wizard want Anitam, will get wizard whatever he wants.

Great!

"Lintalai will come to Amenta, Amentans will go to Arcadia- Arcadia is my plane in Arzum. Planes are- difficult to say. Planes are like infinite planets."

This, presumably, also goes over well, after which Grilbek would like to interrupt any (much appreciated) exclamations about how wonderful wizards are with:

"I will make a portal. Lintalai will go in portal there, will come out of portal here. Where should I make the portal?"

"Portal to - Lintalai house in Anitam?"

"No, not in Lintalai's house. I will make the portal somewhere public, where everyone can use the portal for good."

"We want portal used for good but - not public at first, lots people in hurry hurt each other, break laws. You want like an airport. Lots people, trains to bring them there, orderly. But airports will be bad surprised if portal suddenly there."

"We can make a portal for Lintalai where you want, but the portal will be there many, many, many years. Any Arzumian or Amentan who finds the portal can use it."

"I think on Amentan side we will want build a travel port around it, to move lots of people without problems, and to keep out people who shouldn't move, say because they did a crime and are running away. I should ask Aitim where to put it then."

"Ask Aitim," Grilbek agrees. "First, more language- I tell you about wizardry, you tell me about engineering?"

"Yes!!!!!"

Aitim can identify some good portal-sites and efforts are underway to own one of them!

Grilbek will let the politicians handle that! Who cares.

...Watcher-over-Wanderers cares, and would like Grilbek to talk to this Aitim, apparently.

"Remind me to explain gods, after this."

Wizardry! Grilbek explains how wizards create spells- although there are standard spells which have been discovered, each time a wizard casts a spell requires accounting for small changes, little factors that make this casting different than the last. It's very fiddly and he loves every minute of it- he's not as good as he thinks he could have been if he'd spent some of his formative years on this instead of hauling work he did, back when he was alive-

"Oh, did I mention Arcadia isn't just infinite, it's where we go when we do? I died. Anyway-"

"You go somewhere when you die???? How do you manage that? What does that even mean?"

"When we die, we don't go to feed the worms, like I always thought while I was alive, or to become different goblins or humans in the next life, like my mother thought. We go to different planes- infinite planes, like Arcadia. Some of them are very different. It's much too complicated to explain quickly and not relevant to wizardry or engineering."

"It is relevant to Amentans! My mother is dead!"

"-how many people die every second in Amenta? I should talk to Aitim about a place to put a private portal now."

"Four a second, I think. You should do that."

Grilbek cannot teleport without error. He just has to hope that Watcher over Wanderers is guiding his steps, or hope that wherever he lands, he can teleport out easily. He isn't dying.

"Where is Aitim now? Ask him where I should put the portal and I'll go there."

"- uh, Aitim, they want to place the portal right now, tell me where -"

"Right now? How big is it?"