Down they go and now they're on the helipad! It's a big clear space surrounded by garden.

Eeeeee, garden! 

Puna bounces in her seat and stares out the window and waits with all the patience she can muster for it to be safe to get out. Helicopters are fun, but she wants to explore, and meet people, and, and, and...!!!

And the helicopter settles and they can emerge. There are blues and yellows waiting.

The very instant it's safe, she bounces out of her seat to hover in the air, because it feels more like she's doing something, and darts over to fiddle with the door mechanism until she figures out how to open it.

That achieved, she stands in the opening for a second and looks around at all the people. All of them have such pretty hair!

"Which one is your mother?" she whispers to Shiresk.

"The one in green," he whispers back. And then he formally introduces everyone.

Yay! Meeting new people! 

Puna delightedly says hello to everyone and memorises all their names. Meeting a bunch of new people is sufficiently exciting that she can stop bouncing and focus on being polite and diplomatic as she is formally greeted by Princess Amnoi. Since gods outrank even rulers, she doesn't technically need to bow, but she does anyway since she's a guest here. 

"We are so delighted to have you here in Shi Alassei," says Princess Amnoi.

"I'm equally delighted to be here!" Puna assures her. 

She's still radiating her aura of this is a god, which would like to inform everyone present that she is in fact even more delighted than that, she is the most delighted that anyone could possibly be right now. 

"I look forward to working with your people to improve the lives of those in both our worlds."

"What things would your people find most useful?"

"Science!" she answers immediately.

"Corth has magic, which is what we can share with you, but Amentans are...at least a century ahead, in terms of technology and inventions. It's really exciting!" 

"I am sure there are many things we can usefully share in that area," smiles the Princess. "We may need to consult some other countries so that no one is concerned."

Puna blinks, radiating deep confusion.

"Why would they be concerned?" she asks. 

"What can I do to help with that?" 

"All the countries on Amenta have known each other for a long time. With occasional exceptions, we don't surprise each other and have a good idea of what things would provoke fights and who would win them if that happened. We've never met another sapient species before, and people won't know what to expect. But you've been very reassuring so far."

"That's good! I don't want anyone to be scared."

She thinks.

"Should we work out a set of rules about how interactions between Corth and Amenta should work, to avoid other countries being surprised? It's not really my area of expertise, but it seems important."

"We're actually expecting a team from Tapa to arrive soon. They're one of the largest countries in the world and we stand in a protectorate relation to them. They'll be the ones to talk to about that. But if you have any preliminary ideas I'd love to hear them."

"I don't know if you were listening to my conversation with Shiresk..." 

With magic, someone could have scried them and overheard what they talked about, but Puna doesn't know if technology could do something similar. 

"It would proooobably help if we said that the portal doesn't belong to any particular Amentan country, even though it's in Shi Alassei?" she suggests. "We might set up something similar on the Corth side, but that's our problem, not yours..." 

"I listened to part of it. Administering the portal if there's much traffic will be a big job; airports often see many thousands of people come through them every day. So it being in Shi Alassei does have implications for Shi Alassei."

"Maybe we should try to keep the number of people travelling back and forth pretty small, then," Puna says regretfully.

She's gone serious again. 

"If anyone tries to invade Shi Alassei to get at the portal, you can count on me and my fellow gods to help stop them. And, as I said to Shiresk, anyone who tries to invade Corth through the portal will not get a terraformed planet of their very own."

"That's a very sizable bribe. Once it's clear you can follow through on it most people will be very cooperative."

"Good!"

The multiverse would like to inform the Princess that this is a full-fledged deity who is absolutely confident in her ability to terraform as many planets as she pleases. 

"Who should I talk to about arranging that, or should we wait for the people from Tapa?"

"I'm sure they'd like to be privy to the conversation. May I ask about your - aura?"

"Of course! What would you like to know?"

Answering questions is not quite as fun as finding out the answers, but it's still good, and it'll fill the time while they wait. 

"What is it exactly? It's nothing like anything I'm familiar with."

"That makes sense, since you don't have magic - and you don't seem to have gods, either, or I'm pretty sure they'd have come to say hello by now."

The aura flares briefly.

"It's...basically an overflow of power from my avatar? For a god, squishing ourselves down into a mortal-seeming avatar like this one is really difficult, especially if we want to have constant access to all our powers. Every second that I'm not using as much magic as I could, it spills out because there's nowhere to put it," she explains.

"Don't worry, it's not doing anything bad!" she adds quickly. "Some gods have auras of fire or destruction or things like that, but my aura just heals people a little bit, and announces my presence - that bit's really hard to turn off, but I could if I wanted to. It would take basically all my concentration, though." 

"It's not objectionable," the princess assures her.