Trevor laughs. Dana giggles. "Well, I wish him the best of luck!"

"Thanks!!!"

And off she goes.

"Hey, wanna dance? It's fun!"

"Sure!"

And Trevor dances for the very first time.

"Hey Aitim you love me, right?"

"You're my very favorite cousin who I'm not literally married to. Why?"

"Because I have forty people approved instead of twenty and they include the rest of your family and even though I actually did basically nothing to pull this off I think you should be very appreciative and grateful."

" - I am very appreciative and grateful."

"Uh huh."

"Who all is approved."

She reads off the list.

" - magic dreamshaper vetting thinks Telkam should have inexhaustible dangerous magical powers."

"Apparently. I was surprised too."

"I'm going to have a hard time telling the council with a straight face that due to dream shenanigans all my siblings who are adults and my parents and my husband and his entire immediate family are now the proud owners of massive chunks of settleable land. And they're welcome for rescuing them from what looked like conquest by disaster aliens."

"You poor thing. I'm gonna go to sleep and dream my reds a lovely city. "

"Your reds."

"Jealous?"

"Maybe I'm just skeptical that you can adopt three million people off the strength of 'you got a cop slapped for them and answer their email'."

"You are jealous."

"I'll go tell the council we've got magic. Which due to mysterious dreamshaping shenanigans goes to my immediate family, sorry, that's just how it is."

"Have fun!"

Aitim informs the ruling council of Anitam that Isel charmed the aliens and they approved the following people to be dreamshapers.

         "The greens can't own land -"

"Conveniently they're all my relatives, Kan and I'll have the title."

         "'Conveniently' is a bit of an understatement."

"As I presume several people have by this point taken pains to verify, I was not even informed of this situation until shortly before a vengeful immortal alien arrived at the capitol. Whatever I've gained from this, it's not at your expense, far from it. All the credits will be cheaper."

          "It's not healthy to have wealth and power concentrated like that -"

"We'll pay for children and grandchildren and it'll be even again. - also, Isel wants to make her dimension a red dimension, underground so they can't escape by walking off the edges, and open portals to their usual work routes. Then when we develop the robotics needed to be rid of them she can just seal the portals, no riots and no trouble."

         "Huh."

         "What if they don't show for work - strike or something - how will we enforce credits -"

"If they make trouble she can literally melt the ground around them. She thinks they'll behave themselves. Do we care how many red children they have if they're not eating our food or living in our land?"

        "There are treaties on population control."

"We announce that there are two of Lina and we're withdrawing from the treaty under section nine."

        "Everybody's going to want -"

"Yes, they are. I suggest we get to work on that."

She heads back in. "Hey! Can I get magic now?"

"Gosh, hard on work, aren't you? Sure. I'm going to grab it from the vault. Just settle in and let yourself fall asleep. Sweet dreams."

"Thank you!"

It takes her a bit. She sleeps.