"Hello again," he takes a seat on the other side of the steps.

"Hello! The report was very useful. Apparently with this many people Iabeltha is interested in having them start a new town - she's got a river god interested in cutting through the area, it'd open up some good farming and trading sites and having people ready to break ground on that right away makes the deal more appealing. I don't know if you've sent him a separate representative."

"I think I'm the only one in the area; I can head that way next if that's what makes sense."

"I think it does - Kaneer, god of rivers and - cooking, medicine, stuff like that, I think there must be a better word for it in the language he started near, mixing stuff together to make better stuff."

"Interesting, it sounds like I'd want to go have a look anyway. I have a few more things to do here but I should be ready to go in the morning."

"How should the finished proposal make it where it needs to go?"

"I'm intending to bring Kiraavi out to make a claim by the edge of Iabeltha's domain, if nobody objects to that - he's too busy right now to discuss cutting through but I'm sure he'd like to if she's amenable. Anyway, if she sets notes out within a mile of him, or speaks to him there, he'll be able to see and hear it; his acolyte power extends his senses beyond his domain."

"Wow, cool acolyte power... What's his terrain?"

"Roads! I haven't had a chance to tell him about your intersection innovations yet but I expect he'll be very enthusiastic."

"Roads! What a neat terrain! Does that extend to bridges?"

"They're a little on the expensive side for him to make, but yes."

"It'd go very well with the rivers, you see. I think it'd suit Iabeltha quite well to have roads and rivers criscrossing all over."

"That's good to hear, I think they'll get along very well. Especially the bridges; they're expensive to make, if nobody's helping him out with it, but once he has them you never have to worry about them falling down."

"We can have barges going one way and caravans the other, it'll be great!"

"Yeah, definitely. This region could use a trading hub, too."

"The harbor city's trying to grow into one. It'll go much faster with the passthrough."

"Absolutely."

"Here's my very preliminary estimate of how many people of what sorts we can take and where." It's a map, with the harbor city ("Honeyguide Harbor") marked, the site for the proposed river and new town to be built at its delta also indicated, and a few other places that are having this or that dip in labor supply or this or that surplus in available grains and beans this season and could absorb people.

"This'll be a big help, thank you. Should I wait for you to ask Iabeltha before I help Kiraavi with his claim? I think that's next for me."

"I'm listening."

"I'd like to take Kiraavi out just beyond your domain, to make a claim - his terrain is roads, and he'll want to discuss cutting through with you once he's not so busy, I'm sure. You'll want to know that his acolyte power extends his senses beyond the boundaries of his domain, by a mile, so if he has a claim at your border you'll be giving up a bit of privacy even if he doesn't overlap you. On the other hand, it'll be useful for coordinating about the refugee project; you can leave notes in the visible area for him to read, or speak to him there. I've never heard of him being a danger to any human who wasn't a bandit or any god who was willing to let people come and go from their domain, and he's usually willing to abandon a small claim like this if a neighbor decides they don't want him there."

"Do you have a site in mind?"

"I was planning on using the road I came in on; it'll be easiest for him to join up with the rest of his domain that way." He can describe the area in question.

"I know the place. He can have the area leading into the savannah; there is nothing very secret a mile from there."

"Thank you."