Alia beams at him too, and kneels to hug Molly. "I'm so happy for you, sweet. Why don't you go check that you have all your things, while Ildan and I have a little talk?" 

(Molly doesn't exactly have many things, but she can do that! She's so excited!) 

And Alia catches Ildan's eye and beckons with her chin for him to follow her over to the next room. 

Follow follow.

Alia shuts the door behind her. 

"- Er, some quick context on those two. No major physical disabilities, but Molly was badly burned when her village was attacked. We have a salve and she needs the scars massaged and stretched every night, or she won't keep full range of motion on that arm. It hurts her but she's very brave about it." Alia sighs. "Avri...wasn't hurt, physically, but she was seven months old at the time. They were hiding in the ruins for a fortnight, and when the Guard found them, they obviously didn't have any breastfeeding mothers. She was badly malnourished for several months. We've obviously been doing everything we can for her, but she's - delayed for her age. We're not sure if there will be long term effects." 

"- did you already ask the apsel about that?"

"Not yet, no - he's been extremely busy, running all over Valdemar in that shuttle..." 

"...okay, well, uh, I don't know that anything will be able to do much for Avri, but the arm at least an apsel could probably handle - an angel would be better probably though -"

"We have an angel too! He's, er, very new, though." 

"Oh, I think angels need training to do medical stuff. Still might be able to fix the scars, I don't know, it doesn't sound that complicated but I'm not an angel..."

"Mmm. Maybe we can find out on the grapevine about another angel who wants children? Anyway, I think that's all I wanted to say. They're unsurprisingly also very jumpy, but they seem to like you a lot already. Or at least Molly does. Arvi doesn't let anyone but Molly touch her, that's normal for her, but I'm sure she'll do better once she gets used to you." Frown. "Do you actually have anywhere to take them, right now? They're ready to leave from here but I wasn't sure if you get set up with guest quarters yet." 

"I haven't been given a place to stay but the apsel said he'd make me a house somewhere."

Nod. "In the meantime, you could take them to the gardens, if you wanted? Just that way." Alia points. "Left side of the path. They like it there." 

"All right. Thank you, very much."

Are the girls all packed?

They are! Not that there's a lot. All of their worldly positions fit in a single canvas sack. Molly looks so excited and even Avri is occasionally peeking at Ildan. 

"I hear you two like the garden. Will you show me?"

Molly considers this for a little while. 

"- If you want to," she says finally. "I don't know if you'll think it's very good." 

"But I've never seen a garden on this whole planet before," he says. "So it'll be interesting, even if it's not all blooming right now. - Is Avri heavy for you? I don't know if she'd like me to carry her, but I can make her a little lighter for you."

"You can do that? Wow!" Molly looks very hopeful, but does not actually want to admit, out loud, that Avri is 'too heavy' for her. 

"Yeah, just like this -" He lifts Avri up just a little, so she weighs about a quarter as much for Molly.

Molly grins shyly at him. "Thank you! It's this way." She starts walking. 

Cam catches up to them while they're in the garden, landing nearby. "Ildan, do you have specs or something I should copy for a Little Fairyland?"

"Oh, good question, uh - how about Velana Village? Should have enough space to start out."

"That has stairs and stuff for the kids?"

"It's all single story. With attics but I think they have ladders."

"Even better! I will find someplace to put that."

Cam goes looking for somebody to inquire after this prospect.

He can find a random Herald pretty easily! She doesn't know the answer to his question, though. "I think you should probably ask Tantr– er, ask Jaysen? Er, I can Mindspeak him if you want." 

"Sure, that works for me."

Her eyes go out of focus. She stands there silently for about twenty seconds. 

"...How much space do you need, exactly? And are you going to want room to expand it later? You can probably use one of the fallow fields over by the river, Jaysen thinks." 

Cam looks it up. "I'm going to be replicating a village of about a square mile, though I can rearrange its individual components to fit an irregular space, and some room to expand would be good but I can always make more space somewhere else."

"- Oh, quite a lot of space. The field Jaysen is talking about is only half a mile wide, I think, but we should be able to get a two-mile strip for you, and we can take over more land after the harvest."