"Ranary, and a few other people she'll be able to find while you and me talk refugee logistics."

Ranary makes a gesture that here means "ready".

And Crow and Ranary are in the Sea, a hopefully-safe distance from the disappearance point's edges but where Ranary will be able to see it to hook up to it.

Ranary has a bit of a time getting a clear enough view, but then she's got it.

And Crow and Ranary are standing back where they left, impossibly dry. Crow smiles. 

"Feel free to be unstingy about eating the Sea with magic, it really really really is not going to run out."

"Oh, I'm not worried about that, I got that loud and clear. But if I do it in front of people maybe they will murder me, so."

Crow smiles briefly at "got that loud and clear," then inclines her head.

"Yeah, okay, fair."

"I'll go spread the word." She waves cheerily to Cor and traipses out.

And Crow turns to Cor.

"You wanted to talk logistics?"

"Yep. What's your world like? You said they mostly don't know about magic?"

"The mundane parts of my world are - a much higher tech level than this seems to be. Fast vehicles that aren't powered by animals and anyway go much faster than ones that are can, pretty-much-instant communication around the world with the help of devices, a whole bunch of other conveniences, I'm not going to be able to list every invention of the modern world and I'm not going to try - all powered mostly by harnessed electricity, though some of it runs on burning fuel instead."

"How do they feel about immigrant populations from other planets? They're, uh, going to notice the magic."

"Yeahhhh that's the problem. I have no idea how they'll take - otherworldly visitors, but also I expect the public reveal of our native magic. Still, while I'd really rather not reveal everything - not as much rather not as leaving your whole world to die about it, so hopefully it'll be okay."

"What has kept your magic private so long?"

"I'm not sure exactly? I think likely - some combination of significant incentive towards stealth - remember that our magic runs on Fear - and people not wanting to look crazy talking about things that are obviously impossible and so on - that general kind of thing where people will just not acknowledge things - ah, and also knowing about the Powers and so on makes you somewhat more of a target which I think makes a selection effect towards secrecy in some cases. But mind that these are - my best guesses and I'm only actually the age I look, the truthful answer is I don't know."

"...it runs on Fear, and... most people are not as amenable as you appear to be about seeking volunteers?"

"Exactly. It's - even most of my close allies would say I'm unusually ethical in various tones of fond through bemused for going out of my way to eat rapists and so on under ordinary circumstances. Most empowered just take either whoever happens to be convenient or whoever'll be tastiest or annoys them or whatever."

"Should we be considering assassinations?"

"One you may not assassinate every empowered you can find including all my friends and two it wouldn't even actually help, it's way more a feature of the magic system than the specific people - my friends are actually mostly better than empowered-average and even the ones who wouldn't be do... sometimes... listen if I insist we filter victims at all - it's just that empowered-average is more or less as I have described it."

"Should we be assassinating the fears?"

"Iiiiii do not think they're in general people enough for that? It's - we say Entities but they're not even all that actually separate and only the Web is generally held to actually be sapient and, like - new ones are 'born,' or maybe more we recognize them as sufficiently split off to have names, when there're new kinds of Fear - I don't think you can really kill the Fears because it's less - individual powerful beings - and more - Fear is power, that's just how the magic of my world works."

"Also again with the I would probably die and so would most of my friends but I expect that to be strongly secondary to how I'm pretty sure you can't anyway."

"...magic isn't limited to destroying people but the rest of your point is well taken."

"Fair enough. Anyway, yeah, gonna have to somehow deal with all the nonsense your arrival will cause, given that there's enough of you that I doubt we can get it to not cause nonsense. That'll be... interesting... buuuut I currently see no plans other than that and leaving you all to die and it doesn't sound like you do either, so. We'll deal with the interesting somehow."

"Do you have a geographical destination in mind?"

"Assuming we get to pick a destination, I'm going to say we should probably be near my Archives since, uh, my involvement is going to make this an us problem anyway. What would be nice would be if there were some not-paid-much-attention-to island to put you all on, because that would genuinely give us as good a chance at actually avoiding a massive flaming pile of nonsense as anything I can think of, but I'm not sure there is."