"How many layers deep is it, like, there's the king, how many people does he directly own and how many steps down from there?"

"You know, I'm not sure? The king has a few thousand, which is a lot, but he's in a lot of places at once so it works for him. My matron is Clothildis, and her matron is Marpessa, and Marpessa's matron is the King, but I don't know how typical I am."

"What about like, your friends, do you know how many layers they are? If you matched me with someone right now - don't, I go to Arcadia and I don't wanna, but if you did, how many layers'd that be?"

"Varying between 2 to 4*, I'd say? I don't think being closer to the king matters much. He's in a lot of places, if someone has a good reason to try to get his attention she can generally manage sooner or later."

* Number is guesstimated and may be subject to change.

"Is that a wild magic? The being in lot of places."

"Probably? I've never heard of anyone else with it."

"Yeah, I'd remember if I got that option... How long do people usually belong to a particular person?"

"For an immortality, we're generally looking at a few centuries, though in this modern era the king has been pushing for ease of swapping households in the event of compatibility issues. For cases that aren't indentures, it's generally a few agreements for a year and a day, then probably something indefinite with notice-requiring exit clauses on both sides."

"What happens if someone's contract just... expires, are they like, not a citizen anymore then or something?"

"Yes, but she could still stay in the cities like you're doing now unless the cities didn't want her, and if she wanted to build herself a domain out on the lunar surface probably nobody would stop her."

"So it's not actually true that everyone on Lunabella is a slave."

"You should know it can't be true. Here you are right now with no Covenants."

"I mean, like, people who live here, I'm just a tourist."

"See, the thing is, living here without citizenship is sort of like being just a tourist, just for longer. You'll have a hard time doing business and people will be pretty willing to kick you out if there's problems."

"Oh... huh. Is there even a separate citizenship thing that is a thing of its own besides being in a covenant?"

"Not really. Even given the price of hiring and training specialists in it, Covenants magic is really useful."

"Huh.

"Thank you for answering my questions."

Out into the street again!

It continues to be a sunny day in Chasmapolis.

She is going to go find a nice place to sit outside and hop on Hex VPN to figure out how to schedule all her things against each other - when can she go see the flag, what performances are on when -

People's websites are mostly pretty old-looking. It's as if they haven't heard the good news of CSS-based rounded rectangles. (Forty Turtles is an exception.)

The main constraint on the lunar landing site tour is actually the required Covenant, she'll need to book an appointment for that at a government office. (She can book her appointment online. The Lunabellan government site looks ugly, but it works.) After that, she can technically stop by the site whenever, but if she wants a guided tour there's a more limited range of start times.

It's not possible to fit every single interesting performance into one schedule, especially if she wants to sleep. (If she didn't want to sleep, she might be able to come close, Lunabella doesn't seem to have much consensus on when things should and shouldn't be closed.)

She does unfortunately still need sleep, she did not get the no-sleep perk option. She will narrow things down as ruthlessly as she has to.

How does she feel about doing flying quickly in crowded environments? There's a tempting schedule here which only works if she can make it nearly halfway across some cities within minutes.

She's... probably not going to crash into anyone if she gets enough altitude! And if she gets into a problem situation like that she can turn into a little bird and then fit through the little foot-wide portals she can make. Yeah. She's got this.

Alright! In that case, she can make it to a solid chunk of everything which looked shiny to her, but not all of it.

She'll come back some other time, probably.

Should she be zooming to anything RIGHT NOW?