"We really don't have any magic."

        "How much space?"

"Varies a lot per dimension, vast majority ranges between ten and forty kilometers radius, but there are a few that are continent-sized. ...I think their total size is equivalent to ten percent of the planet's total area."

They glance at each other. "How do you access -"

        "We should leave that to the appropriate people -"

"Is there a problem?"

"Not at all, the opposite. It'd be really good to have a bit more space, they could allow more children."

Felix looks at them confused. "Children?"

"Our species has children. Like Kitak? He is an example of a child."

"Yes... the confusing part was the implication that they have to be allowed."

" - they do. Otherwise people would have too many and we would run out of space and have constant wars and people starving."

"Wow. How many people do you think there are in your world?"

Okay, he shouldn't've phrased it like that, but it isn't a disastrous phrasing.

They don't seem bothered. "There are thirteen billion. We've had population controls for more than forty years - it's still growing, but at a controlled rate. There are treaties to which Anitam is a signatory but I don't know the details."

Still better not give off signs he thinks everything they believe is a lie. "Huh. We should figure out how long your years are? Earth's years are 365 days long, a day is 24 hours long, an hour is 60 minutes long, a minute is 60 seconds long. I could show you on my phone how long a second and minute are," he takes out his phone.

They examine it. They think their days are about the same. "A year is one thousand four hundred seventy five days."

"Ah, then you actually live twice as long as humans, but maturing at same rate. Huh."

"Perhaps that's why you haven't had to implement population controls yet. If you become infertile younger than us - we are fertile until we're twenty -"

"There is one country that does that, but like, it's literally the world's most populous country. Females become infertile at about... your twelve or thirteen, that doesn't happen with males but they might... experience difficulty with age."

"That might do part of it. I think perhaps people'd only average three or four kids, if they only had until twelve. I don't think it'd resolve everything. Perhaps your other countries will start soon - what is the global population -"

"Seven billion. The average per couple varies a lot per country. Some of the richer countries are actually experiencing problems with keeping a minimum of two children per couple."

"How strange. - are they taking immigrants?"

"Varies? ...I would recommend trying for either the Stormlands or the Witchlands. They have a history of taking in magic people."

"...we're not magic people."

"Ah, I mean... I guess aliens would be close enough. I certainly could see the witch-queens finding flattering the idea of receiving aliens as subjects. I am sure some of the other countries would be excited about receiving aliens too."

"Lots of people'd want to emigrate if there are no population controls."

      "Witch-queens?"

"Huh, the Stormlands is actually one of the countries with population replacement problems - albeit mostly because young people emigrate. Would people be willing to have a magical weather-controlling aristocracy and endure one month of intense storms every other month. And the Witch-queens are the rulers of the Witchlands and also a kind of magic user... the most powerful kind of magic user known actually, they are... proud and wasteful, but generally good rulers to their subjects."

"There are lots of people, I'm sure some of them would be interested in anything you could name. Far more of them if the storms don't cause reseasoning. Anitam's government is all right, but people'd take their chances for free children unless the governments were really bad."