A woman wearing green robes, with tightly curled dark hair trying to escape the leather thong tying it back, follows him in and sits quietly beside him. 

"Hi - yikes, are you okay, dude -"

Randi looks confused. "I'm fine?" 

Shavri isn't saying anything but she's suddenly tense. 

Vanyel shares an inscrutable look with her. 

"...if you say so. Uh, are we waiting for anyone else, might as well minimize how much I repeat myself."

"Tran's almost here. I think we can go ahead without Keiran and Jaysen, for now, they've got competing engagements." 

Indeed, a moment later they can hear the outside door thudding shut, and more footsteps, these ones moving at a jog. 

"- Heya. Sorry. I'm Herald Tantras." The new arrival doesn't sound out of breath at all, despite running here. He smiles, and squeezes Vanyel's shoulder affectionately before taking his own seat. 

"Hello! So, I'm Cam, I'm from another universe with better tech by hundreds of years, and I can make arbitrary material objects."

"You're - um, right - sorry, Vanyel says you're telling the truth and I believe you but it's...going to take me a bit before it stops sounding completely crazy." Randi rubs his chin. "You ended up here basically by accident, is that right?" 

"Yup! Being able to summon daeva like me is common practice on another planet but we didn't even know about you guys existing."

"Right. And - there was something about the way it happened that wasn't safe? That usually people in the other world summon, er, daeva like you with - some sort of safeguards in place? And whatever my daughter managed to draw on the floor by sheer coincidence didn't have that." 

Randi seems not that surprised that his daughter helped accidentally summon a powerful magic entity from another world; he shakes his head slightly as he says it, lips twitching. 

"Right. I'm not gonna hurt anybody but some daeva look for opportunities to do so and it would've been bad if one of those had caught the summon instead so you shouldn't try to replicate it without me telling you how to do it safely - and maybe making sure that whoever you summon is cool with being an experimental subject, since I don't know why this would happen to be the first valid circle ever drawn in this world."

"Do you have a way of communicating with other daeva back in your world, to ask that question? I'd've...expected that to be a tricky problem, if the only magic you have is making things." 

"I can communicate with other apsels by writing them letters and not sending them! The other kinds would be harder."

Randi seems confused by this statement, but Vanyel smiles, straightening a little in his chair. "Oh! As in, they can make 'Cam's most recent letter' even if they don't know what's in it? And you just have to, what, have an agreement that you both check whether trying to make that works every so often?" A pause. "What would happen if you tried to make something that didn't exist, like if one of your friends from home hadn't actually written you any letters...?" 

"Then I get nothing. I can check whether things exist and how many there are that way."

"That sounds really useful in itself!" 

"Hmm, at some point we should probably have you go through the list of all the not-immediately-obvious things you can do with this magic. But - er, first I want to make sure we're not trapping you here against your will, or something. I don't know how similarly this works to elemental summoning. Could you go home if you wanted to?" 

"I don't want to! I want to end material scarcity! I cannot go home of my own volition, I need the summoner for that."

"Which we're pretty sure is me, right?" Vanyel says quietly. "I'll - let you go home whenever you want to, obviously. But if you'd rather stay and help us - fix things here - then we're incredibly grateful." 

Herald Tantras seems kind of suspicious, and less sure that gratitude is the appropriate response here, but he doesn't interrupt. 

"All right, then." Randi folds his hands on the tabletop. "What do you need from us to, er, start making your plans here?" 

"...honestly not that much, I'm just attending this meeting as a courtesy. I guess I could use consults with your Healers about what the disease priorities are since they probably don't match Earth diseases in every particular. Once we have a test subject I can't perform a summoning myself and need a human for that. And if we don't want to just summon a bunch of fairies to go hither and yon with all the food you'll probably want to enlist local shipping infrastructure at least at first, though that will be so slow..."

"Fairies?" Randi says blankly.