"It doesn't need to be implemented tomorrow, I don't expect if I show up on television announcing that I have a spell that cleans reds everyone would believe me, but—some rituals are simple enough anyone can do them at home. That will be step zero in convincing people. Then we can develop a ritual that actually does something—it's not impossible in principle to completely replace someone's tissues with different ones made of clean matter, and after enough people—enough greens, I suppose—know enough magic to check that, yes, indeed, this spell does do what it says it does, whether it be replacing someone's tissues or something else entirely, then we can do that."

" - that would work, yes."

"And in that case, it might be better for me to finish developing the new school of magic I want so I can teach people better and so it's harder for anything dangerous to be done with it, and then—come out. The remaining questions are—when would be ideal? What sorts of preparation need to be done in advance? Should we mention the other worlds, too, or just sorcery?"

"Let's start with just sorcery, not get anyone excited about planets until we have a planet to get excited about."

Nod.

"I take it you won't, just, notice on the train that you happened to run by a spot for one -"

"Might, but if I do I'll remember where it was. Haven't, so far, though."

"Is it relative to our gravity well, or our sun's gravity well, or -"

"Seems to be the planet's gravity well when I'm on a planet, but I haven't figured out what it is when I'm not."

"So if you can't find one on the surface we can make shuttle flights and try that?"

"Yes. But I have barely explored your planet yet."

"I know. It's just - the planet is really important."

"I know. And we'll find one—we'll find several. It'll just take a while."

Nod. "I had our red liaison ask ours how they felt about moving to the poles. They don't believe her but a couple might be willing to go check it out once it's set up."

"Good. The Orvaran ones said they're okay with moving there, once we have some infrastructure set up."

"I can arrange helicopters and so on. When will there be infrastructure set up -"

"If you can get me even weirder ingredients and inks I can have it habitable immediately. Building houses and getting them internet and electricity—I can build things extremely fast but I have no relevant expertise."

"I've spent approximately all I can get through formal or informal lines of credit. If you want to do secret magic for money I could arrange for expenses to be paid that way very easily."

"I can do that, yeah. The cheapest form of magic I can do is the biokinesis, when I was a human I made a lot of money off that."

"I was thinking more of the healing but I suppose that requires finding people who are both rich and injured."

"That can work, too, but risks exposing the magic too soon."

"'I was magically healed' isn't the sort of thing that people'd admit, or be taken seriously if they did. How's the biokinesis better that way?"

He holds out his palm to show a pink pearl. "I can generate any biological matter I've been exposed to. My magic's not extremely predictable on what it can produce with what information—most animal products from my world are fine if I just read about them but alien ones or plants are more hit and miss, I had to actually come into contact with those herbs you brought me before being able to produce more of them on my own—but yeah I can generate endless matter and break the Second Law of Thermodynamics extremely hard with that."

"That does seem more discreet." Frown. "I don't know the right purples... I'll look into it."

Nod. "Should I move on to warding the place so it's habitable?"