Oh he doesn't, that's the ambassy. He'll get a room there.

Felix facepalms. Of course, now he is feeling silly.

Well, presumably there are going to be diplomats? Any etiquette it might be relevant to know?

...probably, yes. He might need a crash course.

Well... Felix will do his best to learn everything.

Kaede can help. He is... rather good at this, it transpires. Wonder why.

Well, Kaede is a very smart person and interested in a wide variety of knowledge.

Yep, that he is!

The whole trip will take a few days.

A lot of time to learn the local language and the culture. And spend time with his genderfriend.

(And possibly exchange quiet telepathic conversations with Kaede. Does he think things are going well?)

As well as could be hoped for, really, but I think they'll want to control a lot of the information about sorcery.

Do you think it's wise to just let them?

I think... after we establish contact with your worlds again it will get out anyway and it won't hurt to let them until it does.

Okay, how long do you think until we are free to explore beyond the magic storm.

Oh we never will be, they won't let us go, we'll have to run away eventually.

Joy. Relatedly, what do you think of spreading sorcery knowledge to the public?

Oh I think it's a jolly good idea, but might need a lot of organisation. We don't have the infrastructure.

Yeah, I was debating the pros and cons of convincing them of doing this or that with sorcery. ...I think if we are going to run away, we should establish sorcery as non-evil first and then wait for an excuse that looks somehow justified.

If we're patient enough we can just wait until it becomes obvious that they're not letting us go and run then but they have the power, here.

Yes. I don't think sorcery increases their ability to find us and detain us, but it does scale their ability to do everything else. Sigh.

I meant political power, actually, if we flee we're fugitives—again, in my case. We could just teach sorcery to the masses, if it's safe enough, then they wouldn't have an even bigger power imbalance going on.

Yeah. At least it would be a relatively nice cover. Or nicer than just running away.

We'll probably have to run away eventually, they really really won't just let us go.—although they might, now that I think of it, if people start learning about sorcery and it's not directly linked to us.

I get that they might not blame us in that case, but I am not sure why he would just let us go then.

Because if the cat's out of the bag and we've taught them everything we know there's no added benefit to keeping us.

True. Felix snuggles. I can't say I am happy with this deception in general. Are you sure they won't figure us out? Or worse yet, figure you out?

I would be more afraid of this if I weren't by providence of my alt basically omnipotent now.