Aitim thinks they should emphasize that they've worked closely with Anitam for vetting and procedures and will continue to do so - "because you're aliens but we're predictable, people know what we'll want and how to negotiate with us and what kind of shenanigans won't work -"

"Of course. 'And we will continue our successful partnernship with the Anitami government.'"

"We feel so lucky for having landed on such an optimal set of blues."

"Should we be open about the fact that I arrived here by accident? It might happen again..."

"Doesn't seem likely, but I can't think what is gained by hiding it - people who think you're designated representatives of Earth will notice otherwise..."

"Yeah, better not to create the wrong set of expectations and presumably it strengthens the credibility of your influence over us. ...I was thinking in much longer terms than is usual, which is not actually practical. I just keep slipping into that mindset."

"It can be useful to think long-term! It's reassuring that you will be around to retain custody of the crystal indefinitely."

"Well, thank you."

"Let's change the subject to something that doesn't involve Felix thinking about the eventual death of your sun."

"Well... there is so also a piece of good news about a potential disaster that we managed to avoid."

"Oh?"

"This honestly slipped my mind due to being dead at the time and I think Tani just assumed it was a secret. But she developed a means to block people from creating people that know witchcraft and detect whoever does. Things would turn bad if someone could just create witch-queens."

"I didn't mention anything either. But I was more about trying not to be scary and... Well, best way to describe witch-queen level of magic as being scarier than skymages. They don't have our range and have a battery limit, but compensate a lot with versatility. Overcompensate."

"And people couldn't shoot them if they started committing atrocities?"

"Well, they could try. Assuming you're fast enough that they couldn't just wave their hands and take away the weapons telekinetically."

"Back home they don't go around commiting atrocities and modern technology does help. But the best strategy against one is to wear them down until they run out of magic. And I was concerned with disposable armies: witch-queen edition."

"More of a problem than with dreamshapers?"

"I meant if someone used dreamshaping to create witch-queen armies. Which they can't. And it wasn't a matter of suddenly having as many witch-queens you want because they require a power source, but it would be a force multiplier to a created army."

"I suspect there are still a lot of ways to be unspeakably dangerous with dreamshaping but I'm glad there is one fewer."

"Oh, absolutely. Anyway, where and how is the public annoucement going to take place?"

"Typically we'd send advance drafts to countries we like and then once everyone's feathers are unruffled put it online."

"Any reason why we shouldn't go with the typical route? Or you think the amount of unruffled feathers is going to be too great?"

"I expect the typical route to be the best in this case also."

"Okay, good. Minimal feather ruffling."

"Should we expect any meaningful feather ruffling from the people that don't even have feathers to ruffle?"