[I can travel. If you're literally on the other side of the world it would take me a while, though.]

[No, I'm just a few hours away by plane.]

[What's a plane?]

[Flying vehicle, goes real fast. How were you planning to get here?]

[I don't know your units of measurement but I can run faster than the speed of sound, including over water - though preventing sonic booms is annoying so I usually don't do that.]

[Wow. Okay. Uh, there's stuff in between.]

[Yeah I don't think this planet's a featureless flat plane or anything. I can navigate enough to run through a forest at that speed, and I can just skirt around any major settlements. But a plane sounds simpler?]

[I'd think so, yes. I can, conveniently, get you a ticket even if you don't legally exist.]

[Oh, nice.]

Possibly someone in or working for government, too, then.

[What does getting on a plane involve?]

[You'd get Jackson or his dom to drive you to the airport, tell the staff at the counter you're a 114 and have them print you a boarding pass, I guess get directions verbally from employees since Jackson says you're not literate in English, and then sit in an uncomfortable chair for a few hours and I'll meet you at my end.]

[Sounds easy enough.]

[Cool, I'll get on that. What's your name?]

[Family name Haruno, given name Sakura.]

[Okay, I'm going to give that to the airline as Sakura Haruno because that's the local ordering. Apparently Brian can give you a ride to the airport.]

[Thank you. Everyone's been very helpful.]

[Welcome to Earth, glad you find it hospitable.]

As wryly as telepathy will communicate: [Better than the last alien civilization we met.]

[You've met more?]

[Yeah. Not friendly. Very long story that sums up to 'our planet has a resource they wanted, retrieving it was destructive, they did not consider our species worth acknowledging, we kicked their ass.' We are now playing extreme catch up, both technologically - we didn't win with pointy sticks and rocks but we may as well have as far as power gap goes - and trying to figure out the best way to get a unified planetary defense in case they come looking for their - we think independent project runner, not someone who would be reporting back often. And definitely before they send an actual military force. Luckily we think we have time...]

[Wow. What did they want?]

[Pretty sure they were after something that's causing our planet to have the magic system it does - this planet not having that system supports that theory, since it means our system is definitely localized.]

[Might mean they want to steal our moon or something though.]

[Yeah, I don't know what they're interested in. They already had our magic system, though, they were - acting like our thing would be a power source or something.]

[Huh. And they don't have ours?]

[I don't think so, but we didn't exactly compare notes.]