"Just - don't mess around, okay?"

"Of course not."

"Has he wondered why his alt's not here?"

"I told him everything."

"Okay."

"He's -"

"Glad the war is over and it worked."

"And more malleable than yours."

"Yes, which isn't my fault."

"Okay. Fair enough."

A bit later Miranda asks if there is any reason not to fetch Karen before the school year ends.

"I can't think of one - she's not going to take any of the news too badly -"

"Course not, it's Karen."

"People can be very levelheaded and still freaked out by some of this. But I'm fine with it."

So Miranda goes and gets Karen.

Who is very impressed by everything.

There is, by now, a lot to be impressed by. They have drawn up country-specific plans for subtle magic aid until the Statute can be repealed, and less-subtle tech rollouts, and daeva plans if it turns out that's the pathway to an afterlife. There are annotated histories of how the Muggle slave trade was ended and some things that went wrong with industrialization and how all of the above can be avoided and a Mars-with-daeva plan and a Mars-sans-daeva-probably-run-by-Miranda plan and a few proposals for Elves making contact and pretending to come from elsewhere in the same dimension are being batted around; they have the advantage of setting a better posture for interactions with governments but, Maitimo writes in the notes, 'not sure how much we even gain from interacting with these human governments they are terrible'.

There are analyses of the Revelation rollout of summoning and its implications in the poorest countries in the world with the lowest literacy rates.

There are demon immunologists helping with a vaccination schedule for 1802 humans.

The Fëanáros think they can figure out portals but it might be a few decades. 

It is all kind of overwhelming and Karen appreciates being informed as a sort of courtesy but does not know how to be useful.

"There's a big file of how-does-magic-interact-with-this-or-that-other-thing tests that you could probably make a dent in if you're interested. You can also tell the Elves to make their briefings shorter because not all of us have a thousand years to waste and then they'll do nice little one-page factsheets."

"...if they'll do that why aren't they already?"

"I mean, there is some content lost in the shortening? I think if you are an Elf and can literally do fifteen things at once and have an enhanced memory and so on then the briefings are probably well optimised. But here we are not being Elves. - which has some advantages, I compared human to Elf technological progress and the only reason Elves are only twice as slow at everything is because they have a my father."

"Heh. I'll do magic interaction experiments if there's somewhere I can do the spells, it sounds fun."

"Thanks!!"

So she goes and casts various things on a piece of paper to see which spells make it unconjurable and so on down the list.

And he lobbies the Hogwarts administration for permission to stay over the summer for that important research project he got a corridor blocked off for, no, he's not explaining, yes, he's aware that these are dangerous and confusing times -

- this is a stretch but he's been hoarding favors for years for it -

- and also half the people involved are afraid of him -

- "think it'll go through," he says exhaustedly to Cam, coming home at the end of a day of hearings, "and also I should be careful no one decides to murder me that'd be sad."