"Hork-Bajir seem to only come from the one planet in the one world so far! Though cinnamon and foxes and lentils I think exist on Ardas before humans show up on them."

"...Maybe the Hork-Bajir just haven't shown up there yet?"

"I guess that's possible, maybe one day we'll find an Arda from a billion years later and it'll have some!"

"Maybe it will! We haven't met any Ardas before, I don't think, unless I wouldn't necessarily know if we had."

"They have Elves in, like Melda. How many worlds have you met?"

"Me personally, just this one. I know of another one, and yours and Ardas now, but I wouldn't necessarily know if there are more that the king knows about if no one wanted to come to Azan from them."

"Huh, you only hear about them if people move here from them?"

"I guess? If they're just off in their other world I wouldn't run into them. I could ask someone but I'm not going to bother someone on Azan she's council about it unless I have a reason to and mostly other people wouldn't know either? Maybe if someone made a list I could find it at the library. Do you have some kind of list of all the worlds anyone in your country has ever heard of?"

"Yeah! I can look it up on my computer. What they're like and how to get there if I want."

"I don't have one of those. I didn't even know about those until the people from Emika showed up."

"So Emika has computers?"

"I guess it must! I haven't been but that's where the new books came from, the science ones that Vida's obsessed with. - If you ask me anything I only know the answer to because I work here, I won't tell you, but everyone knows we imported science books and Vida's obsessed with them."

"That's fine, I'm not trying to spy on you!" Shila assures him.

"I know. You're fine. So are you thinking of selling computers like yours here and stuff?"

(Meanwhile the other envoys are also approached by a handful of people wanting to introduce themselves and ask nosy questions.)

The other envoys are also happy to answer nosy questions! What do these people want to know?

Mostly where they came from and what it's like there and what kinds of magic they have. This one kid wants to know if apples grow where they came from and whether they can remove tattoos; this other kid wants to know if they have alien sweets and would like to hire a poison tester to try them all in case they want to sell things here; this non-kid wants to know what the envoys would like from Azan and whether there are people visiting other parts of the planet.

All of these people came from places where apples grow somewhere, though Casjan grew up on a more tropical part of his planet. Luca can remove tattoos but it would probably be faster and less uncomfortable to get it done magically. They have alien sweets, and weren't expecting to need a poison tester to sell them, but if that's customary they will be in the market! They want diplomatic relations and trade and migration with Azan, and there are people visiting other parts of the planet too.

It may perhaps not be "customary" so much as "a scheme this person came up with to get paid to eat candy" but who's going to clarify? Not any of the witnesses quietly trying to hide their amusement.

This person who isn't the one who first asked about tattoos overheard that part and wants to get hers removed as soon as possible even if it's uncomfortable and slow.

This other person seems nonplussed by their answer to what they're looking for here but eventually manages "...oh, say more?"

Okay, Luca can telekinese ink particles out of the tattooed person who wants them out, playing a healing song out of his computer as he goes so they don't bleed all over themselves.

"We're from Vanda Nossëo and teams like ours have landed in every identifiable polity on this planet!" says Zua.

"Yeah but why did you come here if you could've just stayed at home?"

"You mean, like, why do I personally have this job?"

"...No? Sure? I mean why do people from where you're from want to go to foreign countries if you don't have problems you want us to solve for you, do you just like seeing new places?"

"We like seeing new places and new things and learning new stuff. And we like helping people, and most places are in a position to find something we can do helpful."

"Sounds like a good reason." He glances over at the tattoo removal. "And you're not wrong, you seem to be helpful. I think I'd get homesick but maybe not if I could teleport back and forth whenever I wanted."

"I like seeing lots of new places, and, yeah, teleporting makes it pretty quick to get home again if I want that."