Isel accumulates Anitam-1 real estate (suddenly much less valuable, but so it goes) and has it scoured to the ground.

Meanwhile, does anyone wants to help Trevor get his own pocket dimension? They need a dreamshaper for portals because Felix is doing the rescuing.

Kantil has finished relocating the parts of his university he interacts with regularly into his pocket dimension so he can sleep twenty-three hours a day and is happy to help.

They're very thankful. Felix goes through the portal. 

The sky is very stormy, but as soon as Felix walks in some clouds part and a ray of sunshine hits him. The weather is weird, that is noticeable even if you don't have weather senses. It reacts to people in a way that looks purposeful... And there are people, tall, winged and blue-skinned. They don't immediately approach him and Felix can't stop to chat if Trevor's dimension makes people.

The layout is some sort of stone fortress on a mountain. A flying mountain. Mostly everything is the same dark gray stone except for some specific structures that are exquisitely pretty. Felix only observes this from above, because he is searching for Trevor.

But Trevor is the one to find him... as one of the blue-skinned people. Sadly, this isn't the weirdest thing to have had happened in their lives.

They fly out. Trevor wakes up. Trevor goes back to sleep.

His dimension is a large floating island, fairly continuous, but with a lot of cliffs and narrow bridges connecting the larger sections. The weather is somewhat reactive to Trevor's emotions or opinions. It would annoy people that he dislikes and be helpful to that one he does or people he would want to help. He vaguely suspects it might rescue someone that fell off a ledge. He is not sure what it would take to attack someone.

The structures that are not made of gray stone are magical. He decides to call them sanctuaries. They are meant for specific people, if someone is inside their own sanctuary they can move it around slowly but steadily. More importantly, the sanctuaries dampen any hostile magic that is working against their people.

There are two Felix sanctuaries. One for the local Felix and the fork back home. They are nearly identical, golden and incandescent like hot metal. But one burns with a deeper red color that makes it look hotter. The other has a color that is lighter and dimmer. There is sanctuary for Fenris, made of some sort of white-blue marble and it's the only place in the dimension where it snows. There is yet another sanctuary for Maira, filled with pretty water features and made of some sort of quartz that sparkles in many colors under the right light. These four sanctuaries have a place of honor on the top of the tallest peak.

There is also a sanctuary for Dana made of green translucent stone that makes the light look like fire. To his surprise there is a sanctuary for Dana's tiny friend and it is suitably proportional and made of shiny steel.

Finally, the people. What else is going on besides the wings and blue-skin? Well, they appear to be able to make objects lighter to carry during flight, have some sort of electrokinetic attack and...

He sends a message to Dana, Afen, Nerdanel and Isel.

My dimension made magical bodyguards. They're not obsessed or creepy about it and their charges can free them up to acquire new ones. But some of the ones that I made came pre-imprinted on Afen and Nerdanel's twins, Dana and her miniature friend.

To Isel he adds the line.

One imprinted on the red dreamshaper.

My miniature friend has a name. And what?

He can't sleep and is in the red dimension, I'm not sure he needs any bodyguarding, but I can let his guardian know.

Do you know why the twins? Do you have reason to think they're in danger?

Trevor asks Dana to come over. So he can introduce her and her friend to their respective guardians. The friend's guardian is just as tiny and the tiny sanctuary is much faster than the bigger version and zips around their heads.

He sends Isel:

The bodyguard explained to me that is less about needing bodyguarding and more about deserving it (I have yet to get her to elaborate on that). And that ideally they would like to perform the task anyway.

To Nerdanel:

I don't think this is indicative of any danger. I think my magic picks based on a combination of affection, """worth""" (I don't fully understand this at the moment) and a sense of not being able to defend oneself. Your entire family would be qualified if you didn't come off as capable of taking care of yourselves (Telkam is disqualified again because of Huan). But the twins are very young. So... magical bodyguards for them.

I'll talk with them about how we want to do that. Thank you.

They want to inform Faisa and his caretaker? How are they going to do that without scaring them?

Thank you. And sorry for dropping this weirdness on your laps.

Well, that is the million Ni question. Is that even allowed? Red hysteria and all that?

They're in my dimension. No one else has anything to do with it. You are entirely welcome to email him.

Okay, I'll do that. Any tips on how to signal no-this-is-not-a-reason-to-kill-you credibly?

I'm worried they'll be really reluctant to take chances now that he's safe.

And they have all the reasons to have negative associations with winged magical people coming where they live. Faisa is monitored all the time, right? Maybe I could suggest monitoring as an alternative.

Yeah, if they want to keep an eye on his tracking bracelet they are welcome to do that.

She says she can live with that at least until Faisa is old enough that he can credibly say something along the lines of "I relieve you from your duty". Thank you.

Of course.

Trevor messages Faisa's caretaker and explains the situation.

Hello. I'm one of the aliens. I'm contacting you for magical reasons. My pocket dimension produces winged magical bodyguards. It created one for Faisa. I understand that people have consistently fucked you over and lied about this, but please don't be afraid.

He elaborates on the bodyguards' mindset. They essentially consider the bodyguarding thing very satisfying, sort of like how a professional artist would want to succeed at their art. Given optimal conditions, is the sort of thing they would rather do with their lives, but they understand the nature of making trade-offs to get more achievable things. They most definitely would not want to terrify their charges all the time.

He guesses that this is probably not good enough.

Faisa's grandfather writes Isel asking if they have to. Isel says no. He writes back saying that that's very good of the aliens but other children would be intimidated and his grandson would feel like he was different from them even more than he already does with the not-sleeping and it would be pretty terrifying.

Yeah, dude, I understand that you don't need more of this magical shit-

The bodyguard - who was reading over his shoulder - gives him a look and Trevor edits the message.

That is an entirely reasonable response. I'm sorry for having bothered you this much already. The bodyguard duty thing can be released from her duty once Faisa is old enough to credibly say he is doing so. You don't have to worry about this forever. If you need anything, you can ask Isel and she can ask us.

Thank you.

Trevor does not write back. He sleeps and dreamshapes more bits of mountain. He didn't create a Felix's bodyguard because his avatar (or rather himself) is the bodyguard. He can fly while sleeping.

Dana made fast friends with her bodyguard, Tama, which is great.

Felix is collecting information to fill the relevant paperwork. Bodyguards fit neatly as gray.

In a weird mood, Trevor checks what the news have been saying on the aliens.

Anitam is so excited about having more space! The aliens were somehow responsible for that! Everyone has pretty much forgotten that they also injured those cops and did a scary lightning storm thing. Aliens: a-okay in their books.

Other countries want the thing. They want to know if they can talk to the aliens. They send variously courteous requests and demands to Anitam. Some of them write open letters to the aliens, available online, detailing why they think they should get pocket dimension technology.