"Yeah. So, want to learn summoning?"

"You're not concerned I'd misuse it? I was imagining a more elaborate vetting procedure."

"You've spent the last several years going around very carefully and very subtly giving people warp for the quality-of-life benefits. I can't actually think of a vetting process that checks either for carefulness or for priorities better than that."

"Oh."

"I'm sure there is one but I wouldn't learn things from trying to approximate it, I'd just be - doing more things that are the sort of thing people ought to do, without the ability to get additional information from them."

"Okay. Well, I'll be careful."

"I know."

And he explains summoning.

And she is an attentive student.

Then she can try it herself.

And now there is a fairy!

"Wow," says T'Mir.

"Oh that's a neat writing system," says the fairy.

Elsewhere Amentans enter Milliways again, on the palest end of their possible skin tones but not otherwise the worse for events.

"Welcome back. You okay?"

"What'd they tell you all? We're fine."

"I transcribed the conversation in which your absence was explained!" Aitim can read it.

Aitim reads it and shakes his head. "If she's a bad choice for liaison I can probably suggest they replace her. With someone else with a reassuringly conservative history, though."

"She wasn't awful, just, you know, lying."

"They were worried you'd be upset. I did tell them they didn't need to be."

Sigh. "Thanks."

"How's the colony planet doing, has anyone else walked in..."

"Nobody new in the bar. The colony planet in Revelation is doing pretty good, a few humans have moved in to do anthropology and look for trade opportunities and such."

"Oh good. We're pretty close to having re-casted all our reds - they were unnecessarily dickish about it, what with Isel arrested, but they still went ahead with it."

"Congrats."

"Everywhere else is moving slower but we'll probably be ready to have a warp signature inside a year or so."

"And then the Federation will be so impressed and bewildered that you have such far-flung colonies."