"What planet would this be?"

"...Are you expecting to hear a name and say 'oh, yes, that one, I know the one'? It’s one of the ones with humans living on it."

"I was hoping you could tell me how there came to be more planets with humans on them!"

"Well... if you figure it out, I would also like to know."

"Why haven't any of these places gotten in touch with us before? Who even are you, are you an ambassador or something?"

"I could speculate, I guess. I’m Relu. I work for the Sesati Exploratory Fleet now, I guess as a diplomat - there were unfortunately other constraints behind the selection of someone to visit Earth beyond sending someone who could do right by you as a diplomat, but I'm trying."

"Constraints like..."

"Like who has which magic."

"And you have some kind of magic that... let you come here?"

"I don’t want to get into that right now."

"I'm really confused about the timeline and the causality and your priorities."

"My priority is to engage in negotiations regarding the possibility of trading access to certain technology for indefinite unfettered wish access."

"Okay, uh, that is reasonable to want, but, I don't think Ling Wen will be very happy with me if I call her back in and tell her that you seem to have some weird powers but also you still don't make any sense. Is there something that I could do that would help you make sense? Do you want somebody who speaks another language, or... uh... some time to put together a Powerpoint presentation?"

"What things do you feel like you need to know before you can consider discussing possible trades?"

"I'm not the person you'd be discussing trades with. I'm not even sure Ling Wen is. I just, uh, don't want to tell my boss, please come listen to this person with magic that sure seems a little weird but I can't be totally sure isn't a peculiar wish, they are making a lot of claims and they don't form a coherent story."

"Wishes can do almost anything. It's hard to affirmatively prove I'm doing things a wish couldn't do. I'm not even entirely confident there's no wish that would let you clarify gems. My story isn't coherent because I've left more than half of it unsaid. I suppose I can tell you that the place I used to live is embroiled in awkward politics because of some of the aliens and that's why I left. I don't think there's a small number of other things I can say that will lead to you being less confused rather than more. I don't think I'll make more sense to you if I say that my former husband is now my wife or that I've been practicing a mental discipline from Hazel or that I don't know whether there are alternate universe versions of me with blue hair, all of which things are actually very important and meaningful and explanatory from my perspective."

"It's not especially confusing that your husband might now be your wife, but it certainly doesn't obviously from my perspective connect to anything else you've said."

"It's probably not useful to get into it, then. I'm here about magic because I'm worried about expansionist aliens, as is the rest of my organization. We went looking for places away from their area of influence. I don't know if there's anything you can or should do to prepare for the possibility that they come after us here; they're not likely to and they're unlikely to unleash any obvious new atrocities on this planet in particular even if they do find you, and anyway, if everything goes well here my intention is to leave this planet vastly more powerful and safer than it is now."

"I... appreciate that... and the thing you want from us is for no one to ever get a wish ever again?"

"No, the thing I want from you is for any of my people who want one to get one, guaranteed, forever. I don't not want your people to get wishes. I don't know if I even want to slow the rate at all; it depends on how efficiently it's already happening."

"It only works for girls and not all of those."

"It works for people who want it. I don't really understand why the Kyubeys would lie about that." It just seems like such a kind lie to tell, and Kyubey isn't kind.

"I'm not really clear on how you came to believe what you believe about how wishes and Kyubeys work."

"Educated guessing based on patterns in the kinds of magic that exist."

"Those patterns being..."