Yeah.

"Avalor, what season is it right now in your world -"

"Spring."

I appreciate the merits of not giving her more foster parents if she doesn't want them but, uh, in our years that makes her seven. That is an age at which you should probably have caretakers.

If that had happened to me at that age I'd want foster parents but mostly because I'd want leverage and connections and prospects for financial help starting out, not because it'd be helpful to have people trying to parent me. I don't know. I wish I could ask mine. If she's all right with it I'll try to place her with a blue family on Mars with a kid the same age.

Won't she prefer Voans?

Yes. But they're not allowed to know about Milliways.

You know her better than I do but she might object to that.

She will definitely object to that but it's not actually my call, we can't shuttle orphaned Voans from alternate universes to Voa without some way to convince the Anitami government that's in our interests and as long as she's the only point of access to her world it distinctly isn't.

The part where she's the only point of access could go either way.

We don't need to unpause or access her world. It means it'd be a disaster if something happened to her, but mostly a moral disaster, my government underprioritizes that. 

Mm.

?

She isn't currently in your government's custody. She could stay here or go to our world, potentially. For that matter Cam could get her a door to Hell, she's more humanlike than the egg critters, someone would probably want her.

Here is an option. Hell seems risky I'm really hoping the egg kids get the local afterlife. Your world doesn't have good enough sanitation for Amentans to be happy there though I guess you're in a position to improve it very quickly.

It's a good idea for public health to say nothing of immigration opportunities.

Can talk with her about the options but maybe not with the soldiers in the room. Feel free to manufacture an excuse for us all to go upstairs if you'd like one.

"Avalor, do you like animals? I have an alien cat upstairs and he is good at sitting in my lap when I read, I bet he would sit on your lap while you read."

"Okay," says Avalor.

Upstairs they go.

Cricket is in fact present and will in fact curl up on Avalor's lap.

Adults will keep passing notes.

What would you do if you had the leverage.

Give Voa a colony in Revelation, place her there - Revelation because they're doing best on the values-contagion front.

And you can't get her to your Voa, or you could but it'd be costly -

Very costly, possibly they'd be more amenable if we got some Anitami people from their world to have control of the door. "but it's not obvious we want my government in effective control of that door," he murmurs aloud and therefore unconjurably.

"Huh?" asks Avalor.