Which only has one Vala on it, but he can't be everywhere at once...

Exactly, and in general they seem temperamentally less inclined to interfere with things happening there...

Ours do, but ours didn't bother sending Ulmo over a much shorter distance.

It still wouldn't necessarily be safe to go public with magic but it might be a safer place to live quietly out of the way.

Which isn't what we're looking for long-term but it'd be a reasonable vantage point for tinkering with the spell and jumping from.

Yes. Long-term we are going somewhere where we don't have to hide. Just - that might turn out to be a little hard to find.

Oh well.

At least you're out of Materia.

Yes.

Sigh.

They fly towards a city with graceful steel building hundreds of stories tall.

Wow.

"It's so pretty!!"

"Yeah, wow. Very science fantasy."

"I am glad to know things would have gotten nicer eventually. Too bad how I'd be dead."

Hug.

"It sounds like here you are alive and happy."

"Yeah."

"And busy. Or is this not an unusually interesting event, by local standards -?"

"It is, he just gets like that."

"Me too."

"Do you think he'll want to come with us, once we explain?"

"Probably."

"It might be useful to have someone who knows things about science fantasy things and how they work."

"And he'll want magic."

"As long as he visits sometimes."