"D'you want to listen to them," he says to Amriac, "it's probably going to be more sadness -"

"I wanna drop a microphone but I don't have to personally be there."

"Sounds good."

He sighs and shakes his head and gets his computer. "Have you told Miranda that we are considering having her help Elves administer a human planet, or should I -"

"I have not, go nuts."

So he sends her a message: hey, had cultural exchange with the Elves. They mean well but as it stands taking human refugees would be a disaster, they're way too naive from way too many angles. Interested in running a planet with them and pointing out things like 'if your laws have no enforcement mechanism humans might break them'? 

That sounds fun.

Thought it might. They're outside singing but if you have questions for them I am sure they'd be happy to answer.

I think I'll make Cam recommend me Revelation history books for broader context first.

"I'm going to bed," he tells Cam, "and Miranda wants Revelation history books for context on mistakes to avoid with a refugee planet."

"So she says. I'll get on that."

He sleeps. He wakes. He comes downstairs before Cam's finished the booklist. 

"I think we should meet some orcs from Sanity, they sound more humanlike and also I want a feel for whether they'll be a disastrous population in which to roll out summoning."

"Yeah, that's a good idea. It'll take five days subjective to get there though, even if we get time running with a circle for a daeva who needs binding."

"And even that won't work if there're people from there in here, right, we'd have to shoo them into soul Arda? I'm a little confused about how the time effects all work."

"No - I'm here, Amriac's here, time still moves in Hell with the circle open. I think circles seem to override the pausing."

"Okay. Would you be willing to come along or are you still staying here until Singularity's sorted -"

"...I think the location of competent Valar may actually suffice to detach me from my, like, vigil or whatever you'd call it, as long as we have transit every which way reasonably secured."

"Oh, good. I hope it doesn't take them a year to get the incompetent Valar up to speed but that's at least less of a cost if it's not pinning you in Milliways. And I'd very much like you along. Shall we get through all the to-dos that other people might be counting on, plan on leaving in subjectively a week or so..."

"Sounds like a plan."

And bounce bounce bounce - "genetics is really cool I think I get it now -"

"Cool. So, I found a wizard gene; when I tested on myself I amended my own genome-I-had-while-human to have it but you can skip that step. You just need to have enough chromosomes in you to qualify. This requires thinking of them as part of your body plan so they'll do the indestructible thing and not get expelled from your cells as irrelevant waste. I have no idea if I've sustained it this long, I could pick up Miranda's other wand to check I suppose..."

"But if I'm concentrating it'll be there?"

"If you are concentrating and have concentrated continuously since your last set of transplants, yes, but I don't think you can heal them into place any more than you could heal on wings you hadn't ever attached. I suppose you could also try interpolating yourself with nuclei and assuming the ones that don't land mid-cell will not be covered by your concentration and get cleared away, which would be faster and less visibly gross."

"- sure, I'll try that first - how many did you need -"

"I wasn't sure so I just did all the transfusions and grafts I could self-administer without leaving bulky whatever-it-was-removal equipment around. Most of my various fluids, skin on my hands in case that mattered for wand handling specifically or something, bone marrow. It probably wasn't all called for. ...I don't know if wizards have good painkillers; 2179 has great painkillers."