"Sure, they're over there!" She points and turns to the next person.

He walks to Nelen and politely waits to be acknowledged.

"Hi there!" says Nelen, when he's sent his current customer on their way with a new contraceptive ring.

"Hello! I am a shaman, able to speak to the beasts and spirits. I've told the lady over there some about it, it sounds like that could be useful. I also wanted to meet more visitors from other worlds, I'm very curious what brings you all specifically here."

"Oh, well, I joined up when - for a while after Vanda Nossëo found my planet I didn't have a job, kind of a lot of us didn't - my subgroup of my species. We took a while to get used to the multiverse, enjoy having Vanda Nossëo basic income, lots of us immediately started having a ton of kids, took up a lot of hobbies we hadn't been able to try before. And that was fun, for a while, but then I wanted to be doing something. If I were married it'd probably be the having a ton of kids thing, my species loves kids, but I'm not, so I wound up in an employment office and it funneled me this way and I passed a screen for the extra fancy spells. Eventually I'll meet someone and settle down. Maybe still do a turn as an ambassador now and then while the kids are at band camp or something."

"I wish you joy and luck in that, truly. Sadly my time is nearly past, family is an old dream that is not to be for me. Are there very many nonhumans who look mostly like humans?"

"Kind of a weird number, yeah, we don't know why. My kind have colorful hair and more teeth than you." He grins to demonstrate.

"Ha! I could not even begin to venture a guess. Or well, I could, but I doubt my guesses are worth anything here."

"There's some internal difference too, and stuff that you can only see over time - I can go from as pale as Tarwë to darker than Cassiel in the space of a few days if I get enough sun, and then back again if I stay inside. But mostly you can think of Amentans as humans who really really like babies."

"I don't suppose I could go visit? I'm a wanderer, you see."

"You can! We don't have a bus station installed here for more regular trips but if you'd like to just go up to my ship and take a ride from there to wherever strikes your fancy you're more than welcome. Shall I pop you up now?"

He laughs. "Why not? I'll repay you with advice on spirits later, how about. Maybe even teach someone how to do it themselves- Though it takes years to master."

Nelen pops him up to the lobby of the ship.

He-

Is starstruck, making a beeline for the window and staring out at the stars and planet, open-mouthed.

"That's not your side of the planet, right now, the town we're working in will come up in about three hours on that side," Nelen says, pointing.

"This-

"It's just barely on the edge of my perception but I can feel her. Mother Earth, and Sun's distant gaze. So... Lonely and proud. I- I'm sorry. This is a very moving experience."

"Those are - spirits?" Nelen asks.

"Yes... Supposedly. They- Would be ancient and alien beyond belief, if they are spirits in truth and not - my own wishful thinking, or something. I - This is..."

"The planet is probably billions of years old, and the sun older than that," Nelen says.

"A thousand thousand thousands. We should- I should- Can you bring me closer or take me away while blindfolded so that I can't tell? I want to know if I am imagining it... I would imagine it still if you've moved me and I can't tell the difference. I don't know if I'm making any sense right now.

"I can hand you off to someone who works shipboard and they can take you on a shuttle ride? I should be getting back down," says Nelen apologetically.

"-Of course, of course, you have your duties."

He visibly steels himself before turning away from the window. "Thank you, and lead on."

Nelen hands the shaman off to a shipboard human, who can lead the shaman to a shuttle and take him on a ride while he has his eyes closed.

He can pretty reliably point out which way the sun and earth are, within about a ninety degree cone. And tell when they've moved very far away. He is extremely excited about this and finds it difficult to stop talking about spirits afterwards!

That is moderately interesting to the pilot! He takes them back to the shuttlebay and parks and can give the shaman a tour of the ship now if he'd like.