"Do you think the laws are inadequate?"

"A lot of them are designed under the assumption that pocket dimensions are natural phenomena. Or at least phenomena that no one is currently directing."

"So maybe we can design the laws here better. Do you have suggestions?"

"I think... I should've shared my reservation with sharing this sort of power in the first place."

"Oh?"

He tilts his head. His face is probably too tired and listless for it to be properly read.

She seems to be expecting him to talk.

Felix tries to give her a challenging look, fails, but the look at least isn't pure misery.

"I just landed on this world. Anyone with a minimum of foresight - supposedly a blue cast attribute - would be able to see the wisdom of not just randomly granting powerful, likely politically destabilizing magic without wanting to learn more about your world first. And on top of that, I haven't been to your world in less than a day and I've already met a group of people so oppressed that not expressing preferences not matter what it's a thing they do and are convinced that one of them acquiring power would mean death to their entire family. Because they are considered disgusting."

"...I regret causing offense," she says, looking very confused. "I think perhaps you misunderstood me? This world now has dreamshapers, apparently by accident and by an accident that could be repeated, and so we have asked what precautions are conventionally employed to protect people when there are dreamshapers. I understand your concerns, but how is it dangerous to describe to us what precautions we should be taking with a magic that is already present and causing problems?" 

Tired sigh. "You do realize that I know that you know that dreamshapers are very valuable assets?"

"They sound it. But for the reasons you just mentioned and concerns about risk and general conservativism we would certainly not jump to producing them deliberately. But some exist, so we would benefit from your knowledge of procedures for risk management."

"...maybe there's some kind of cultural difference here?"

Sigh. "Back in my universe after me and the other dreamshapers got rid of our abductor and are finally safe we made a group choice to not go public. In fact the vast majority was very scared of being find out and used again. I don't know about the others, but for me and my brother one other factor was that we could be manipulated. Any government would love to have someone with our capabilities on their side. It's not even... automatically malicious, we are just too tempting to ignore."

Another sigh.

"You're talking about laws in a way that makes way more sense if you're talking about law as it is going to apply to future dreamshapers citizens that are produced somehow on purpose or in mass. And not if your concern was random dreamshapers popping up at numbers that you can't currently estimate."

"Can we talk about laws in a way that lets us address the latter concern, then?"

"Oh, I am certainly that we can in fact do that. But would you mind if I shared with you the most traumatic experience of my life?"

"Not at all."

"The magical toxin I had to burn off my skin? And the abductor's nephew that I mentioned earlier? His name was Arthur, his dimension could produce shapeshifting monsters that secreted the magical toxin. It allowed the creatures to not only take someone's shape but created a telepathic link to mimic them perfectly. We were captured by a particularly nasty one who wanted to torture us. I had to kill them... or my ex would've been..."

Felix looks away. He can't even say the rest. That he killed them with his fire. Something he promised himself not to do. And the monster was wearing his face and it was like watching his own twin die by his own magic. While having to hold the fire tight around the creature's body so it wouldn't harm anyone else..

"I'm so sorry," she says. It's maybe a tiny bit forced.

"I am sorry. That was too dramatic. I should have explained that dreamshapers could be dangerous to you."

"I appreciate that some things like that must seem obvious to someone from your world."

Felix nods absently.

The decision is not really conscious, not one is able to stop him from flapping his wings and go through the portal. He closes it and collapses to the ground.

(Elsewhere a red very tentatively steps into the house.)