And he assembles a trade delegation and the flat Valar, who can pretty much carry on a normal conversation at this point, open a portal. They put the portal in the star system but not attached to Godspring's inhabited planet.
And through the trade delegation goes.
"I explained stray cats to Maitimo once a long time ago and he said it wouldn't be a good idea to go do nothing but feed them for decades."
"Awww. - it's hard. Like, on the one hand, Bright spent thirty million riaxi rescuing Cir, and I expect that much money thoughtfully spent could have saved hundreds of lives, and a virtue fairly essential to running an empire is the ability to look at someone who is asking you for help and say 'sorry, but all the people not right here personally asking me for help deserve it too'.
But on the other hand I'd have helped Cir too."
"Anyway you can do both. Save Cir and all the other people."
"All the time. We have Milliways. We never ever have to choose again."
Miranda is pretty darn sure she is subjectively fourteen now! She dresses up and solicits refreshments from Cam and invites people who seem like they might want to come have an excuse to have a party. She does not notice the way Karen is looking at her.
Parties are fun! He asks Amriac for materials and makes Miranda lots of showy little magic presents.
He's been working on wood computer cases that let them work in Hogwarts and they're almost done but not in time for the party which is terrible. At Timothy's suggestion he instead gets her one of the books he was using for the computer case work, on the Hogwarts warding, annotated with notes he conjured from the founders themselves.
And Timothy gets her an expanding and collapsible floating three-dimensional map of the current multiverse, with a simple set of rules to add new worlds and portals between worlds and a cool zoom effect that lets you make out details on buildings in any given world.
(It took a lot of work. Milliways's time dilation was terribly generous to him.)
Karen has been reading up on wand lore and since one of Miranda's wands has semipermanently changed hands Karen has made her one custom. She nabbed some wand core items during the potion ingredient run and now there is a cherry wand to replace the pine that Cam is using.
"Happy fourteenth! Are you going to get the Valar to tinker with the slowed aging or not until we're at the point of opening the door?"
"I think I can safely look fourteen but maybe not more than that. I don't want to be unnecessary amounts of stagnant."
"Makes sense. I wouldn't have really been thrilled to drag out puberty. Maybe the summoning rollout in Godspring will be informative for back home and we can get moving on it sooner rather than later."
"That'd be good. Although the fact that daeva can be wizards is complicated in different ways even if mages can be daeva-mage combos too."
"I'm not in general confident in any of our plans that run on 'don't let the daeva learn about this' but the fact they can be wizards might be an exception, that one is legitimately hard to figure out and you'd have to take a summons and get a wand."
"Okay, anyone who was formerly a summoner and therefore has genes, and knows enough genetics to identify the wizard gene and figure out how to splice it in, and is willing to do lots of gruesome transplants on themselves, can get it in a week and still can't check whether they've got it because no wand."
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