"I think Universal Studios bought the rights to make a documentary. If conclusions are ever reached about what Mars needs do let me know."

"Is Hazel's Mars uninhabited?"

"Yes."

"If you wanted to guarantee the Areological Society access to it, they'd be easier to budge on terraforming this one."

"I can do that. I can petition for a portal but I think they're reluctant to do portals between here and the preindustrial humans for as long as they're on restricted summoning access."

"No great hurry. The arcologies aren't at capacity and don't take long for demons to add to."

"I can at least get portals added to the fifty-year transition plan. Thanks so much."

"You're welcome, my friend, of course!"

"Can't get started on the fifty year transition plan until we have a way to handle wizards," he complains later. 

"Steal some detection magic from future wizarding worlds, have inexplicably competent law enforcement -"

"The only thing I've turned up that might be useful like that which works for Hazel wizardry per se is something called the Trace which is used to ban underage magic in a clumsy discriminatory way, but I can look harder."

"Is there a way to patch the things that make it clumsy and discriminatory -"

"If we really wanted to go that route I'd give it to your dad to work on but I didn't see an obvious fix."

"Dots with really good video surveillance so we can notice and handle problems, and a rule against taking the daeva offsite, might be okay."

"And they have to avoid anyone stealing the projectors. Again."

"Projectors that don't work without external electricity are easy - I think easier than the kind which work anywhere, actually - they just have batteries in case of outages or something, and could be designed without them."

"Okay, but if projectors don't work at all in case of excess magic..."

"Then wizards break the dots, yeah. And we still have the problem where ex-wizard daeva will be highly motivated to get their magic back and are, by and large, not exceptionally nice people."

"Does Vala antimagic work on us too?"

"Haven't asked them, that's a good idea."

"Ideally it'd work on individuals and not just areas but that seems like not how they work."

"As far as I know, yeah, they don't seem able to do that. Areas might be enough, though, if the dots were safe."

"Enough to get people summoning; not enough to make the daeva realms safe. For all we know accidental magic is enough to turn a lizard into a dragon - or somebody will waylay Minor in transit next time a park wants a pair - or a fairy will steal a potions cupboard with unicorn hair in it - and then people can make their own wands."

"Not impossible, over a long enough time scale, but by then we're going to need to be policing the daeva realms anyway, I don't think the Elves're expecting the forking thing to stay quiet forever and the orcs'll finish their artificial womb..."

"I'm sure they mean well." Sigh.