"...okay."

"Is there anything else I need to know?"

"Then I remade the stars and planet and most of what was on it and started putting people back and I was halfway done when I found this place."

Nod. "And we're the first people you've run into here?"

"Apart from Bar."

"How long have you been here -"

"Maybe a day."

"What do you need from me, besides responsible handling of the rollout in our universe -"

"That, pretty much. I'd sort of rather you leave with warp and not lightleapers, there's some kind of balance of interplanetary power about and it can handle new entrants with warp but I don't know how five days to literally anywhere would shake it up. Let alone summoning, but that cat's kind of out of the bag."

"They'd be happy to keep it secret. Sort of our natural impulse with - kinds of power that are equalizing - do aristocracies normally survive gunpowder?"

"I don't really have a 'normally'. Human ones took a heck of a hit."

Sigh. "Anyway, 'occasionally planets are very cheaply terraformed and we don't explain why' is a possible medium-term arrangement while we figure out how destabilizing summoning is going to be. Might be necessary anyway - how many demons and fairies and angels are there -"

"A few billion each, more all the time - human summoners become them when we die. Don't know about other species."

" - huh. That sort of changes the calculus about making it widespread..."

"Doesn't it just."

" - could look up the people we're executing today, see if any of them happen to be perfectly lovely people who it wouldn't be a problem to have as a demon or angel or fairy, figure it out..."

"You execute many perfectly lovely people?"

"Someone did a lot of research a year back and concluded that six percent were innocent. I suppose with demons we can get that down to zero. But even the guilty ones there're probably some who wouldn't reoffend - caught up in a bad crowd, did something stupid for the money for a kid..."

"Y'all are really obsessed with kids. Daeva can't have them, incidentally."

"Then the ex-Amentan ones will be very sad. Still might think it improves on death - I don't have internet here, can you pull up the public record of executions scheduled today or tomorrow -"

"Title?"

He can give the web page.

And here it is.

He starts reading through it. "Death penalty's another thing that'll upset our new friends?"

"Depends on the friends."