"Good idea."

Kanimir is amenable to this! Hooray magic study!

And after about fifteen minutes of reading her spellbook and muttering to herself, she stands up, chants some words, gestures some gestures, and tosses the end of the rope into the air. It sticks. She climbs up the rope, disappearing from view as she passes the top of the rope.

Her head pokes down into view a moment later. "Coming?"

Anaphiel manifests her wings and flies up.

Inside is an approximately fifteen-foot radius hemisphere bounded by mists.

"Oh, wow, wings. I was wondering."

"Oh, yes, my true form isn't humanoid at all."

"Huh. What is it?"

"It's...basically a giant glowing tree with wings."

"...OK. I kind of want to see that. If it's not rude to ask or something."

"It's not rude to ask but it can be very destructive to assume my true form on Earth so I'd rather not."

"That is also an excellent reason not to. Did Kanimir look like he was coming? I suppose we should probably actually leave and recast the spell and see if he can scry this conversation from that one."

"I don't think he intended to come up this time, no."

"OK, let's go then."

She climbs back down and dismisses the spell once Anaphiel is out. The rope falls down. She recasts and tosses it back up.

"The thought is that you could go up and see if you can past-scry our conversation in the last one, see if it's they are the same space."

"Alright."

He goes up.

He comes down again.

"It doesn't count as the same space but I could past-scry it by using you rather than the location as a focus."

"Huh. I would have expected that if they are different planes you wouldn't be able to past-scry across them at all. I guess that's not secure, good to know."

"I can past-scry things that are in Fairyland."

"Oh. I guess I was wrong about that."

"Fairyland? How many planes are there in this, um - cluster?"

"Three or four, depending on how you count it. Fairyland is Earth, but in a sort of pocket dimension that spits you out into normal space if you venture beyond its borders."

"Huh. Our cluster is larger. We have a heaven and hell and an assortment of other afterlives, an intermediate plane of the dead, six elemental planes, and the plane of shadow. We don't have a fairlyland, though we do have fairies."

"I would be surprised if they were the same kind."

"Our vampires are different - or, I suppose, Kanimir is particularly inhibited in the mind-control department. I am pretty sure our angels are not secretly winged light trees. Humans seem the same so far, but I haven't seen any other humanoids here. I would assume your fairies are also different."

"Vampires cannot mind control people. Your vampires can mind control people?"

"By staring into their eyes, yes. Also they have some degree of control over vampires they turn. I suppose I can take this as sufficiently independent confirmation that it's safe to look directly at him now."

"Those are not things vampires here can do, no. It is safe to look directly at him."