"Oh. Yes, that - seems like a serious worry."

"So right now we basically have two options on the table. Option one is to seal Amenta's existence as a state secret and check back in every--hang on--twelve point five of your years, that's a much rounder number in Villarosa time--to see if Amentan culture has changed to the point where that's not a worry anymore. Option two is leaving the cleenz alone but accepting red immigrants slash refugees, because you aren't going to freak out about coroners."

"We... are not.

They'd wonder where we were going, if more than a few went."

"Manufacturing fake corpses is something Villarosa magic can do. I mean, it's never been done at scale before, but people do occasionally have reason to fake their own deaths, so the spells exist."

"I suppose we could pretend to be... having an epidemic of something."

"Our research suggests that if every single red in Rivik were replaced with a fake corpse with signs of violent death people would be upset by the lack of conveniently abusable plumbers but they wouldn't suspect alien involvement. --Uh, that's a reductio ad absurdem argument, I'm not suggesting that we do that absent a really pressing need. What I mean is that if red deaths by violence or other unnatural causes were perceived to go up across the board it seems unlikely the cleenz would care until it got to the point where services were disrupted."

"Yes. At some point services would be disrupted, though, and they might project a trend forward."

"I don't think they'd probably guess aliens, though. And if red deaths by violence went up and they got worried about that it seems like they would react by starting to instrumentally care about preventing people from doing violence to reds, although I could be underestimating their cognitive glitch around reds. The first endgame that comes to mind would be to let them invent robots once we have contingencies in place to get out everyone who's left at once, but I can see how that would seem like a really terrible idea, so we're working on alternatives."

"I see. Uh - where would we be going."

"Well, that's something where we weren't going to try to work out all the details without talking to you, but probably mostly Grande Rosa and Les Millevilles. Uh, those are two of our star systems. Grande Rosa is our oldest and the one our capital planet is on and Millevilles is, like, super urbanized."

"And what would our situation there be?"

"Depends on whether you're legally immigrants or refugees. Refugees get more slack on arrival but you'd be going through the existing refugee bureau, immigrants are more expected to pull their own weight sooner but under the circumstances the Crown Princess would have the wherewithal to create a temporary agency specialized for this situation in particular."

"What kinds of work are in demand and what training is available? Is there room for all of us? What kinds of population control systems do these planets have? What is the refugee bureau like?"

"The population control system is that when things get too crowded we terraform another planet. If things get really crowded then we scout another uninhabited tar system to claim. So I guess star-scouts and terraformers are liable to be in higher demand than previously. There is absolutely room for all of you, you're--half a percent of thirteen billion? That's sixty-five million, we're still a couple billion shy of needing to terraform another planet at the moment. Work that's in demand disproportionate to how many people want to do it includes agriculture, traffic control, and waste disposal logistics. Adult training exists but is moderately irregular and is one of the things that would be handled by an agency for the settlement of red Amentans. Also, since you're literally the first non-human species anyone's ever encountered, there's going to be demand for things like memoirs and a lot of geneticists are going to be willing to pay good money to look at your genomes." 

"Would there be any hope of accessing the Amentan internet from there? Is translation like you're using common? Will we season on your planets?"

"We don't currently have anything set up to access the Amentan internet from Villarosa but it's something we can make happen, albeit it'll be much easier if we have help from some of you who know more about how your internet works. The specific translation spell I'm using is...not uncommon, but under the circumstances it's probably better in the long run to create specific spells for Amentan languages, general translation spells work but specific language-to-language spells are better. Way easier to debug and handle idiom and so on. General translation spells are mostly used for things like watching foreign-language media, not for living in a society where you aren't fluent in the language. My educated guess is that you'll season naturally on some but not all of our planets and that seasoning can be handled by magic, but it's not impossible that after some of you show up we'll discover that we have to find and terraform a new planet that's more Amenta-like in year length and axial tilt and so on."

"Do you have any opinions on what order we should send people across in? Or about handling for people who are reluctant for whatever reason to leave?"

"I think that the first people across should probably be people who fall into at least one of 'willing to risk some amount of permaspring if the seasoning situation is complicated,' 'can help us get things set up for everyone else,' and 'in immediate danger.' I think that anyone who doesn't want to leave should probably be allowed to stay until and unless their staying presents a danger to themselves or others but I don't know enough about your internal organization for that to be a strong recommendation, I found enough red corners of the internet to lurk on to pick up the word 'cleenz' but not a lot more than that."

"What kind of setup help would be most useful?"

"Knowing things about Amentan IT and being able to offer constructive criticism on things like training programs and temporary lodgings. For values of 'able to' that mean 'will actually speak up if something's wrong,' if possible."

"I can put together a preliminary list out of people from this neighborhood and the ones we have the closest relationships with without making things too dangerously widely known. How many people should be in this batch, when will you be ready to take them, what should they pack?"

"We can take up to twenty within a week in non-emergency conditions. They can bring up to three pieces of luggage of yea size," she demonstrates with her hands, "prioritizing things they don't want to risk losing instead of necessities like food, necessities we can provide on-site. But if there are any medications they can't do without for a few days they should bring those, we checked and Amentans seem chemically compatible with human food but we don't have Amentan drugs."

"For this purpose is baby formula a food or a drug?"

"A food. Admittedly I don't know how baby Amentan and baby human nutritional needs differ but we do have fast-acting spells to induce lactation, and Amentan mammary glands are structurally similar enough to human ones that I would be floored if they even needed tweaking."

"All right. Do you want to separately vet them or should I just assemble them at a particular time?"