"No daemons?" asks Charlie. "At all?"

"At all. It's like they're zombies, only they still manage to - be people, if occasionally terrible excuses for people."

"It would be really weird if coming to this world had not unzombified you. I am not sure if we could date."

He laughs. "I wasn't even thinking about that, that's also a nice bonus, being able to date you. I was just thinking of how nice it was to have her around."

"If we wind up having Kystlian immigrants do you think they'll take as well to unzombification?"

"Hmm. I think in the long run, yes, but at first there would be problems because they don't know what they are and they're freaking out. But if they're in a plane where everyone has one, then they would adapt reasonably well. Normal people, certainly, the mages I would put somewhere remote so they don't hurt anyone by being idiots."

"I mean - you did demonstrate that it's a vulnerability nobody from your planet is accustomed to having."

"... True. But I think I might actually be biased now. I mean, yeah it's a huge vulnerability I didn't have before, but - I don't even know. I'm happier this way, she helps with muscling through emotions, helping me be a better person, soothing doubts that I have with other people socially, keeping me company when I'm alone but with still the soothing feeling that I can get from being alone - or, conversely, actually being alone but having something feeling like someone is there. So I'm just not seeing why they wouldn't think it's worth it unless they were in a society surrounded by people who don't get it. In this situation, they would all get it by immigrating."

"I guess we can stress-test this guess by asking some people. Certainly it should be on the 'Before You Immigrate To Earth, You Should Know...' informational pamphlet."

Isabella nods.

"This who you're going to colonize Mars with?"

"...What'd I miss?"

"I wasn't completely serious about colonizing Mars, but it's an option if we want to keep extra-planar immigrants from doing both losing their culture entirely and from doing terrible things to people because they don't understand. Honestly it might be better if we found a planet that was habitable in this plane already, rather than Mars, because it would save headaches of 'How do we survive with no atmosphere' that way."

"What kind of range limit do you have on your scrying and teleportation? There might be a planet with a breathable atmosphere, but I couldn't tell you how many millions of astronomical units away it'd be."

"Hm... Probably not to the other side of the galaxy or something, but in the general area around the Sun I think I could manage it. Further away the harder it would be, so preferably something close-ish. Basically, treat it on the level of planar-teleportation but with more ability to scry beforehand, but harder to do because it would involve a lot of math. So if colonizing another planet becomes an option, I would have making a portal be my first order of business so I don't have to do the math part again."

"Is this the kind of math where the fact that I have a calculator app on my phone will help?"

Isabella beams and hugs him again.

He hugs her back! "I mean, seriously, I know you were joking about omnipotent utopia plane, but this one is amazing."

(Awwww.)

"I'm just going to officially immigrate. That's a thing that's just happening now, I guess I'll go back to my former home and grab things I want, but not living there. Nope! We can fix the things I want to fix from here. Best plane."

"I'm so glad we've impressed you. Thank goodness you didn't land in, I don't know, a low-rent area of Mumbai or something, you'd probably have been much less pleased."

He giggles. "Yeah, I would have missed out on the awesome parts of the plane with awesome people."