"Oh! Wow, great hair. I can talk now, do you want to come in?" She pulls her door open.

"Thank you." She'll enter the door, then, and... have no idea how to be a polite guest but presumably going inside and not touching anything can't be too wrong.

Keoni waves her into the sitting room; it has a conversation pit and a projector screen pulled down to cover a window, switching every few seconds between various high-resolution pictures of flowers. She jumps into the conversation pit and puts her feet up. "What's up?"

"So uh. I don't know how much you heard about Sesat. I didn't kill myself to avoid slavery." She's braced for Keoni to turn less friendly at that.

"You... didn't?" blinks Keoni.

" - They already - did - I thought I could get revenge or finish what I was trying to do if I stuck around," she says in a rush as if it's an excuse she has to say to ward off some kind of attack, "that's why I didn't kill myself sooner. And then they were going to kill me, so Vanda Nossëo couldn't free me, and obviously they wouldn't be fast about it so I went for the store in case it'd be safe and then they were definitely going to take more than a week about it if they caught me, and I meant to go down fighting them but - I know I should've but Artorian was hinting really hard and clearly had a plan and, anyway, I'm wondering if there's more plan here that I shouldn't step on when I go deal with them."

Fere clearly expects that this makes any sense at all.

"Go deal with... who? You were sentenced to a death that wasn't gonna be too clean, that's awful, but you're here now, they can't touch you, honey," says Keoni.

"...I'm not just walking away from that - I'm not the only one, if that's what you're thinking...?"

"Yes, but - what are you thinking you'd do? If you kill somebody you'll get in trouble, and maybe you don't care about that, but if it's directly downstream of Vanda Nossëo being there, they'll just resurrect whoever you kill. They don't like it when they get people killed."

"See, glad I asked. I could get people out, even if Vanda Nossëo gets mad at me for that they might not send them back?"

"I think you could do that but you should wait. If Sesat joins, you won't have to, and if they refuse to join, you're not messing things up for everybody you can't get to."

She nods, slowly. "How do I know if they've refused?"

"Read the news? You should get a computer, I didn't want to overwhelm you but you seem to have hit the ground running."

"Sure, how do I get a computer?"

"Do you want the kind you control with your mind that you need a brain implant for or the kind you don't do that with?"

Her hand goes involuntarily to her head. "Uh, is that... safe for humans?"

"Yup! Not safe for every kinda person but fine for humans."

"...Okay. I'll get whichever kind you think I should."

"I have the brain implant kind, it's so convenient. Do you want to go right now?"

"Sure!" The idea is absolutely terrifying but she did not get here by refusing to do things that are terrifying and she's not going to change her strategy now that it's finally started paying off.

Keoni has a scooter with a passenger seat. Off they go, nyooooooom!

And presently they are in a little unmanned storefront and Keoni tells the computer operating the place that Fere wants a chiplock installation. When Fere has paid for this the door to the back room opens; she can sit there until the installer arrives.

Fere focuses on breathing evenly and not looking afraid.

A Dwarf who is also a demon appears, looks at her, and then vanishes. A computer, the cylinder kind she's seen people use before, falls into her lap.

Well, that's completely unintuitive. Wasn't he going to do something to her head? Should she leave? She looks at the computer as if it is going to explain itself.

"You done?" calls Keoni from the front.