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.
He takes a deep breath. "...sorry. I'm really not being fair. Everyone in Godspring went out of their way to be nonjudgmental and it was very upsetting but there are lots of reasons for it beyond 'they're horrible and don't care' and here there are even more reasons. Did you in fact get the real story?"
"His magic system makes him lose memories whenever people touch him, and by law he was supposed to do it a lot anyway to earn money for the - collective - that raised him, and the only politically nondestructive way to extract him was to pay them the money. He doesn't belong to me."
"He's fifteen and even if he weren't it would be kind of inappropriate under the circumstances."
"The specific thing that happens when they touch people is they fall in love with them. And you feel this magic certainty they're in love with you thing and it's very pleasant, thus lots of people paying his collective lots of money for the right to touch him. And he touched me. To get my attention."
"I didn't actually realize what people were assuming until Midnight explained. And Cir wasn't assuming because he understands me. I tried telling the humans that that was not the case and not acceptable where I was from and they all hurried to reassure me that it was entirely acceptable there. Yay."
"Cir pointed that out when I complained to him about it. I guess once they're daeva we can see if they are less tolerant."
"It's more than the physical safety. If once they have a not-us source of everything they could need they continue to be cheerful and encouraging about us buying their children for sex then I will judge them."
"We've had a couple people die in the cohort of very old trustworthy mages we taught summoning. Results inconclusive. Hopefully after another few countries of diplomacy-ing things'll be clearer."
"Three people have died, they all daevafied, one kept their magic one didn't and one is unwilling to check."
"White's the one we really want. You'd think the whitemages would be likeliest to die on us but they haven't so far."
"If they're sure they'll daevafy couldn't they just do a whole lot of healing and die pretty quick?"
"Maybe now that we have some example daeva in hand we can convince them."
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