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.
"Thanks." And back out of the infirmary - "it'll go faster to look it up, I think."
"I don't mind that, but gosh, how can you be hanging out in an interdimensional bar and not be curious about the rest of the multiverse? We should give her a summoning textbook, at least. Earths that era are known to take it well."
"I call the world Alucine! Nowhere else seems to have them, you see."
"They're where stuff goes, pockets with dirt on the bottom and sky on the top, none of this 'planets' or 'space going on forever' - mind I do like it when space goes on forever, it's like a poem -"
"Oh, yes, but only fools do so," says Laaro, beaming. "And some altruists and some desperate types."
"Learn magic and pick up some dangerous or unbecoming personality trait! No takebacks!"
What, again? He's getting really fond of magic systems that don't have horrible psychological side effects. "Is the penalty for knowing it or for using it?"
"Makes sense. Thanks."
Looking up a list of those: can also go on the to-do list.
He can't get anything from the world with the alucines; they have a magic internet, looks like, and puts everything on that. He can read from the magic girl world just fine. Between reading he gives commentary on a curriculum for Elves interested in running little clinic/banks in Godspring. "I want to have a summoning class for them where friendly daeva explain to them every thing they said that could constitute agreement, or renegotiation, and what they could do if they were inclined to be a jerk. I think otherwise they won't get it."
"I actually think that like 80% of the missing information that makes it hard for us to anticipate the multiverse is just 'everything should be interpreted as a euphemism for coerced sex'."
"That does seem to have frequently been your problem, yeah."
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