"Maybe they could have their own little company town."

She writes that down.

"There is something like that in a couple places. I don't work with any of these people directly, you understand. Hmm, anything else?"

"I don't know, are there more mentally investigative or controlling effects floating around?"

"Not in this building."

"I hope I may expect a complete rundown of what there is in that vein on Earthsea before I turn into a space angel?"

"Hard to be complete, but of what we know, yes. Later. You might be invisible to the godphone. It's telepathic. I've been assured that you can still be transmigrated fine unless something much weirder is going on."

"What would happen if something weirder turned out to be going on and I could not transmigrate fine? What's the upshot of being invisible to the godphone?"

"It'd mean you couldn't talk to Khintal and ask questions. And there's an examination by a magic researcher in your future to make sure. If you want, of course. If there's any chance it'll kill or strand you, we'll let you know all the risks. And transmigrating does involve technically dying."

"Like, biologically dying because I will shuffle off the mortal coil to be a space angel?"

"Yes, precisely. The body will die, but your soul will be sent to Khintal via magic."

"Cool. Uh, based on what you folks now know about my personality now that we have done all these tests did I overlook any other positions that might be as good or better?"

"We aren't you... There's a few, uh, 'chosen one' type positions out but those tend to be much more active and dangerous. There are people who are better suited. A lot of the others have various drawbacks you'd likely consider worse, such as being mostly alone for likely two centuries, or being in the power of a god that is less predictable than Khintal, or turning you into a building. There's one for a librarian-mage to fight off a necromantic apocalypse... There's one where a psychic plague of some kind is taking over everyone's minds... A world asking for twelve people with the power of the Chinese Zodiac, to fight an alien invasion... A lot of the worlds we send people to kind of need the help. Spots like Khintal's are less common."

"Wow, do you get a lot of people who want to be buildings? I guess if there are any of those you'd be the only game in town. ...what's the librarian-mage and necromantic apocalypse deal?"

"There's a few. It comes with immortality unless someone demolishes you and some other stuff. Mm, draw magic power from your mobile library with a few different ways of moving it, catch the souls of people who die in the library and summon them back to fight the undead for you, find the guy who's causing all the undead stuff and stop him please and thank you. I don't understand why a library. They're just... Like that."

"Huh. Are the tests for that one separate, if I want to poke into it more?"

"Not the first round, we're basically just the asshole test. Don't want rapists or murderers with phenomenal power in another world, don't want to send our clients a lazy slob who won't actually do the job. Or someone who'd be miserable and regret everything. Some different stuff later on, but at that point we're handling you individually already."

"How did any of this screen for rapists or murderers?"

She makes a face. "Sorry, too flippant. We've got some observational data on what people get up to when they have sudden shiny power and a new world to explore, what they were like before. There was a particular incident where a transmigrator decided that certain people weren't people. No record of trouble or anything on Earth. But we pay more attention to personality over a longer period of time now."

"Huh. I assume you also do background checks and stuff - now I'm a little surprised you're up for considering me aged seventeen, nobody's suggested I should come back after high school."

"We do background checks and stuff, yes. It will be much simpler if we wait for your birthday, but we also try to be nice to people with a high enough GPMG to make it, so no pestering them about petty things like getting a silly certification, or being eighteen, if they are actually competent. You're worth millions of dollars to us if you go through with it."

"Keen. Khintal pays you directly?"

"Yes, summoners pay with raw resources most of the time."

"But what I mean is that you might be hoping for a more adult version of my personality to screen, assuming that letting somebody messed up through is worth negative millions."

"We do tell some people to try again in a few months, but there's also some pressure to choose decent people quickly. The pool of high-GPMG people who actually apply is not that large, we can't afford to be as thorough as the FBI or something, we'd spook people off."

"It's sure something that the FBI, which just gives people guns, has affordances to be more thorough than you guys, who give people magical powers."