"I have never thought about what would make magic more exciting before but I guess now that I'm thinking about it it'd be cool if it were something everyone could just do. Are we going to have people who want to interview us or, I don't know, people who want to visit Sathend?"

"Probably! It'll be throttled to what's comfortable for you, though, you don't have to take interviews if that doesn't sound fun."

"There are thousands of us and I assume most of your population would rather just read the interviews other people conducted so it's probably fine? I don't think I'd want one, maybe unless it was about art history, I might do fine at that. How would I tell the... people doing the throttling... about that?"

"You don't have to specifically tell anybody, it just kind of works out that way, but I can tell my coordinator when we get there if you want."

"Convenient. Hmm. I guess if I were just waking up I'd probably think it was worth asking how long ago the apocalypse was but we just don't have a good answer for that, for your world..."

"We'll probably be able to tell once you're there, maybe by genetics or by what stories about Earth you have or something, but I don't know right now."

"I'm noticing we haven't even talked that long and we already have a couple of things where we want to wait and get more information before we bring people back," she says, reaching for some string to take notes, "and we're probably just going to accumulate more. But I guess noticing all of those is one of the reasons we're even having this conversation, so, hm, next question... what's the most dangerous thing on Mars?"

"There are dangerous... hobbies? Sometimes I get cut up when I'm swordfighting, because it's swordfighting."

"Could someone, like... accidentally walk into an area where you were about to throw your sword, or something?"

"Not really! I've done a couple combat-improv pieces where there were spectators who were allowed to jump in and join the scene if they wanted but I wasn't going to hit them by accident."

"...That sounds fun, honestly... what about artistic volcanoes, surprisingly slick cliffs, poison mushrooms, fruits lots of people are allergic to, toxic paints...?"

"I guess if someone really wanted to be allergic to blueberries instead of just not being allergic to blueberries any more they could pick some blueberries and eat them and have an allergic reaction. Artistic volcanoes are out of the way of things they would damage that they aren't supposed to."

"You can fix allergies! We should have a list of things you can fix - that seems like a list that probably already exists somewhere - what else would I wonder if I were new - I would ask about my descendants but that's not useful to ask you right now - I would ask what happens to people who don't get jobs and don't have friends who offer them things."

"It's a post-scarcity world! You can just get some robots to do all your chores for free and have them build you a house and cook you food and stuff and never need a job if you don't want one."

"Are there specific places you'd have to put your house to be out of people's way, specific particularly easy foods you can expect to be living off of, does your house have to be small so the robots don't have too much work...?"

"You can have a giant house. I have a castle. You can put it somewhere nobody's using, or in a city on top of stuff, or next to people you want to be neighbors with - I'd kind of expect an area to be set aside for people from here to start out while you're getting used to it but that's me guessing what Sing will do and it's smarter than me. The robots can make whatever food you want - I guess they might take a little bit to learn how to use the new ingredients around here and the recipes."

"How would they... like, squidfruit is really picky, it doesn't grow well unless you kind of baby it, are the robots just going to start an orchard of it? Are there lots of robot-run farms on Mars?"

"Yeah. I think most of them are underground."

"...Of course, you must have so much underground space, most of Mars must be underground... I should have thought of that. Is that all reserved for Sing and the robots?"

"Not at all! But outside is pretty nice so a lot of things with people involved happen there."

"Makes sense! What's the top thing on Mars that you'd think it'd be a shame to miss out on?"

"Everybody likes really different things, I'm not sure there's anything everybody should see, but one thing I like to suggest to people who've just woken up is flying."

"That does sound pretty cool. What does it look like - I mean, your sky is fake, right, it's just that enough air all together is sort of hazy, so I'm guessing it never looks like you're near it...?"

"The sky is not an object, so it doesn't look like you're near it, but you can get up very, very high if you want. Miles and miles."

"Very cool. Hmm. Is there a state of the art about - so we've brought people back, but not generally after more than a few months, do you guys prefer to go in some kind of order so everyone's kids are alive to greet them or what?"