Seihra can go put together that announcement.

Exav can talk spell design with whoever they send. It was Exav's day off but this is urgent.

They're sorry about having appeared on Exav's day off.

They've gotten ahold of Mîr's wish design department and have some wordings rendered and checked in Hari to vet, for the unconjurability of the people, possessions, and inhabited places belonging to the people of Har (available in "entirely" or "just the things that are also unscryable", they recommend the latter because demon forensics is pretty useful but it's up to them), stasis on the conjured bodies of the dead of the past, and a precautionary wish protecting the magical development of any babies conceived or born at an inconvenient moment.

Exav wants to know if demonic conjuration is unprecedented or if it'd make more sense to wish for immunity to divination more broadly, and whether they can make use of any of the established ways of excepting specific people's spells to allow illusion mages to, say, specify a whitelist of demons if they have some reason to want to.

Demonic conjuration is pretty special but a broader immunity might work. No-conjuring-except-under-these-conditions might also work, the question is mostly whether someone can muster strong enough feelings about it when it has more caveats.

Well, maybe if Exav ranks wish designs by how well they'd achieve what the people of Har most want to get out of this, they can go through the list in order and find out if any of their candidates can wish for them intensely enough. Is there a direct relationship between number of caveats and required strength of emotion...?

Often people who are making a wish like this find it much easier to feel strongly about a simple, clear principle than about a complicated legalistic document but it's by no means universal.

Meanwhile the imperial minister commandeers the imperial news and also the imperial live public executions channel to make an emergency announcement about the proposed solution, and then about the problem, and then about the special considerations for pregnant people.

They're swamped with volunteers for the wish. Well, for the privacy wish. A comparatively manageable number of people feel strongly about putting dead bodies in stasis or having a backup plan for babies.

They can bring a bunch and see who makes the Empress's wish-granter go ding the loudest? They're already moving this entire damn planet to Mîr.

(The test planet has made it there and back unscathed, seismic readings nominal, atmosphere intact, sun not behaving weirdly. It helped that they went WAY WAY WAY above the surface of the flat in Dreamward.)

They can do that. Some of them make the wish-granter go ding quite loudly indeed.

The winners for each wish can be the ones to make it, then.

Winners make wishes, then. They manage to work in a reasonable amount of caveats to the privacy one. The imperial news gives a terse summary of the whole thing afterward.

South Coast News and Weather edits the interview and cuts the death and immediate leadup thereto in favor of having Malar summarize things.

The Vanda Nossëo folks tentatively attempt to pick up where they left off before, uh, that.

Minister Seihra lets them know that Har has chosen to take it as a sign of good faith and an overture of friendship that they granted this wish, and invites them to send someone to the imperial audience chamber to address the three people to whom all the rest of the imperial government answers.

Okay! Here's an Elf who introduces herself as Alassë.

Someone will then show Alassë down a mazelike hallway whose walls are not where they look like they are, to a dimly lit room where three people appear to perch on daises. There are two agerah - Seihra, Imperial Minister of Public Works, and Haria, Imperial Chief Justice - and one caralendar woman, Saran Sorota, Imperial Minister of Revenue.

"Your people's coming has been intensely disruptive," says Saran, "but so are all interactions of societies with one another, and this one less than many. Is it true, then, that you have come because you care for the wellbeing of others, wherever they may be found?"

"Yes, that's right," says Alassë.

"We are pleased to have met you. Can you think of anything else that might alarm us if handled indelicately - I would very much like to be sure we're done with that phase of things and move on, I expect you understand."

"We weren't expecting this first wave of alarm, but brainstorming attempts haven't come up with anything else obvious. Uh, more common sources of tension are that Vanda Nossëo opposes slavery, takes a fairly strong position on children's rights and freedom of emigration, doesn't endorse the death penalty, and opposes mind control and mindreading."

"Well, children's rights and slavery might indeed be sources of tension, but that's not nearly so alarming as the existence of mind control - we'd like to arrange tests of our magic against that and mindreading, and, ah, backup plans in case those tests turn out alarmingly."

"All right, we can call in a range of people with mental powers for testing. Some people, like my species, just have communicative telepathy, but there are more powerful ones. We do have our own solution, based on Mîr wishes like the ones we just arranged, for that, which most of our envoy staff are equipped with. It works against most things. - there are also precognitive powers in a particular world-neighborhood that our defense does not work on."

"Can you tell us more about these precognitive powers, and can we avoid them if we stay in our own universe?"

"The precognitive powers only work in a particular neighborhood and Har isn't in it. Information about other worlds that enters that neighborhood can be precognitively learned. They work by allowing the precog to get advance information about things that they in particular will experience while remaining in their neighborhood in the counterfactual that they did not use precognition. We use that for disaster anticipation - we probably would have gotten a warning from a precog about the privacy thing if it hadn't specifically concerned privacy and make bringing more eyes onto the situation fraught - but nothing local to Har that doesn't make the interdimensional news will be apparent to them."

"Well, that might be fine. I am sure some people will be annoyed that all their shows will be spoiled if they get popular on other worlds, and there are probably other problems I'm not thinking of immediately... I expect it will be fine. So, I don't think we're likely to join Vanda Nossëo - trying to end slavery really wouldn't be popular, probably not even among slaves - but I hope we can nonetheless make you glad you came."

"Can I ask why ending slavery wouldn't be popular among slaves?"

"Many of them like being alive or have hope that they will like being alive in the future."