"I think some of them are pretty lazily gatekept, and might let you in by mistake, but I wouldn't say the thing to do about it is hang out with people who ask and think it's really cool you did that, instead.."

"No, I wouldn't like that."

She pulls herself together enough to look at her packet.  "...Can you tell me more about the free general housing?"

"Again, you don’t have to sleep, but it is legal and acceptable to do so in the hexagon compartments in the cavern below the city. You should not leave things in a compartment while you aren’t there. They’re organized into neighborhoods by language. The ones with human languages have ladders so you don’t need to already know how to fly."

"Do you think I'll be able to get money?"

"Do you have any skills? Showing up on time and being pleasant on the phone and stuff like that are skills."

"I can show up on time.  I... can try to be pleasant.  I mean, I think if I'm not pleasant it'll be in the falling apart direction and not the mean one, or, I can really try at that.  I graduated high school and was - I graduated high school."

"Then you'll be able to find something. Anyone offering less than fourteen signatures an hour is checking to see if you're vulnerable and gullible, don't take it unless they have a great explanation and you're ready to quit."

"What would be the cheapest rent I'm likely to find at a place where I can keep some stuff?"

"If you just want a storage locker, or more space than that? In the city or out?"

"A place to sleep as well.  Or - to live.  A nonpublic space to live in.  It can probably be out of the city, I think."

"You can get a cave in Zess - it’s on your map - without a status for a thousand per period. It's not a good neighborhood and people can break in and so on. You can tunnel into a big space between caverns if you get far enough away from where they're all right next to each other, and make your own cave for free."

"Thank you.  How long is a period?"

"Forty days but some periods have additional intercalary days."

"Got it.

"Is it a normal way for people to live, to just - only ever be in public spaces?"

"I wouldn't say normal. Transitional, more like, a thing you can do while you figure out if you want to live somewhere or move on to somewhere else."

Okay, cool, she is not that much among psychological aliens.  She nods.  "Do we have any magical advantages in learning languages in ways other than through summoning?"

"New natural angels pick them up unaccented like human children, but you don't."

So it will take her some number of years to be able to communicate effectively here, maybe reduced to some fraction since she mostly won't be sleeping.

"Can people join your Lihi classes any time or are they on more of a schedule?"

"The schedule's in your packet but if the tutor likes you they sometimes add private sessions."

An angel lands out front and folds his pale blue and white wings.

She checks the packet for whether this means there's a schedule at all or if she's going to have to wait a bunch of months to join up.

It looks like she can drop in at levels Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced, each eighteen times a period if she wants to be taught in English, and Mixed Level Educational Immersion every day since then it doesn't matter what the language of instruction is.

This place is really nice except for all of the things which are really not nice about it.  She gets out of the way of the new guy coming in.

He sweeps in. "Hi, welcome to Heaven! I'm with Mitta, an electronics company."

"Hello."

"This is our most popular basic level model," he says, handing over a tablet. "The Mikka-kaha. All yours! May it serve you well."