(Lawrence is totally the sort of person who would be tempted to use world-destroying apocalyptic magic for cleaning. This is not a productive thing to say.)

:I'm going to leave behind Rendon here while I'm offworld — you and others can talk to him if necessary while I do the familiarization. He also has telepathy and I've been relaying the logistics conversation to him.:

There's another person standing next to him now! He has black sclerae and he's wearing a black rubber catsuit up to the top of the neck.

:I am Rendon.:

If there's nothing else, Lawrence will step out and fly back into the bridge and start making a mental map of the Everything Nearby. The thing is that the Prison is...super samey...so you have to look out for the really little things. Spatial Sense makes it a lot easier, and he starts having a Duplicate make a scale model of the surroundings, like earlier.

Wow that's a weird outfit. Also the slavery. But there are more important things.

"Do you have immediate questions before I go try sending someone to Asphodel," Cor asks Rendon.

:No.:

Unlike Lawrence's, whose mindvoice's typical structure and intonation is meandering and diffident, Rendon's is crisp and crystalline.

"Okay. Back in a few."

And he disappears into another guildhall room.

:Understood, Sir.:

Rendon is just going to stand there motionlessly with his eyes closed unless someone talks to him.

...Cor would tolerate worse to save the world or even just some of the people on it.

He's back in fifteen minutes. "Any updates?"

Wow, he's very upset by him. Lawrence said not to read what Cor isn't actively projecting but it's not very difficult to tell that he is. For Rendon, anyway.

:My Master says that, in a book, it was said that the familiarizing process required one to be familiar with a place as though one has 'lived there for a week'. He has previously only linked to places that he already lived in for longer than that, but the bridge area was one he only recently explored. He is planning to be conservative and spend a whole week there even though he thinks the time could probably be cut down, because if the bridge lands in the wrong spot, it would take another eight days to build one.

I do not need to eat, drink, excrete waste, or sleep.:

"That's sensible of him. And convenient for you, probably."

:Yes, Sir. It was such a chore to have to do it back then. Though I still possess the ability to eat and drink, and sometimes do.:

"That's the way to arrange it if you can," Cor agrees inanely, finding somewhere to sit and doing so. "I have a name. You can just call me Cor."

:Yes, Cor. As you wish.: Rendon does not sit and continues standing motionlessly. Indeed, he doesn't even breathe.

There's nothing that Cor specifically is needed for at this moment but there are a lot of things he can help with, like getting evacuation-relevant data dug up and collated.

He sets about that, checking in on Rendon every now and again in case anything has changed.

Rendon is silent and still and doesn't communicate with Cor unless he initiates the conversation. But after a bit, :My Master has said that you may make use of me with regard to anything that would be helpful to the saving of the world.:

"Besides having all the maintenance requirements of a brick what is it you can do at this time?"

He will describe his potentially relevant capabilities.

He has telepathy like Lawrence but shorter range. He has Gravitic Angel and Spatial Sense but also less max acceleration and range on both. He is strong but it's rather obviated by Gravitic Angel. He has Sculptor but he only has the tables and chairs made of marble to work with right now, though it wouldn't take long for him to go through the bridge and get more.

If Cor needs to be flown or things need to be ferried or people need to be escorted, he can do those. Spatial Sense has the benefit of improving mundane spatial intuition and memory, even when it pertains to things outside its range.

He doesn't know the language well enough to read and write documents, but people can read the documents and he can understand them. Well, provided their reading comprehension is fine.

In that case Cor will sit near him while reading documents for various evacuation-supporting research purposes.

He is amenable to that and will say so. Is any of the evacuation research anything that he can help with or is it magical research.

It's not magical but it requires reading; people are getting censuses and collecting news and checking maps against each other to find out how to most efficiently collect refugees, in case Ranary manages to come back and report that Asphodel will have them.

Meanwhile, Ranary, barely dressed with a bag of soot tucked in her bra, appears somewhere else.

She's at the bank of a shallow river. The water seems to have a golden glow to it, and it's warm. The sun is directly overhead, seeming like noon. The sunshine is warm on her skin but the weather isn't hot. On the other side of the river is a forest, with some of the trees having tiny red fruits in bunches.

On her side of the river, there's an anthropomorphic sheep — thte figure has fluffy sheep wool and no clothes and a sheep's head but is standing on two legs. With one of their hooves, they're holding hands paws with another anthropomorphic animal: an grey wolf. With the other hoof they are holding a wicker basket.

The ground is covered with slightly wet, lush green grass.

They're facing away from Ranary and towards rows of bushes, this time with tiny orange fruits in bunches. The wolf is picking berries and putting it in the sheep's basket.

She is not particularly optimistic that she'll be able to talk to them but the other guy had telepathy. "Excuse me?"

The sheep puts down the basket. And bleats at her. But somehow Ranary can understand the bleating, like it's a totally normal language that humans can understand.

"Hello!"

The wolf waves hello, and it's clear that they are waving hello and that this gesture is not intending to mean something else, somehow.

...wow, okay, score one for "the other guy had telepathy" reasoning. "Hello! I'm Ranary. My planet is falling apart and I'm looking for a place to put refugees."