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"I was thinking right after the conference wrapped up if that works for you."

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"It will." His eyes flicker. "Yes, all set." And to Findekáno, "are you also coming?"

"Yes."

"I'll see you both tonight, then."

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That'll be a fun group to go exploring with. Cam doesn't remark on that. "See you."

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They're both there that night, sitting outside the conference at separate tables and desperately delegating the next few weeks' activities. 

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Cam can wait while they do that.

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And then everyone is ready to go hop dimensions.

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So Cam makes a worldleaper and poises himself to produce air and a ship as soon as they land.

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And they find themselves in deep space, as was statistically nearly guaranteed.

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Air! Ship!

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"Are there locals?" both Elves say eagerly in unison, and then fall silent.

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"I shall hop outside so I don't burst the ship if the answer is 'lots'," Cam replies, and he lets himself out and starts conjuring up stuff.

Presently he returns. "Humans!" he reports. "Or something that looks a lot like them."

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"...huh," Maitimo says.

"That is very surprising," Findekáno says. "Even if we think dimensions have recent points of divergence. Shall we start narrowing them down?"

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"Did that," Cam says, "they're that way. I'll narrow it down again when we're close enough to get a look at individual stars in the right galaxy."

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"Can we look at what you've got? Do you have translation up and working?"

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"Translation needs to chew for a bit, there's a bunch of languages, but feel free to have a look," Cam says, handing them each chip corpuses of recentish recorded output of local humans.

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They can't read the writing yet; there are an awful lot of charts and diagrams. This society apparently organizes a significant portion of their written output as flowcharts. 

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"Interesting to be in a new place without the advantage of speaking a language," Cam says, laying in a course for the correct galaxy.

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"I am surprised my father did not personally insist on coming. Hundreds of languages, huh?"

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"...More," Cam says. "But only a few hundred popular ones and a lot of them seem to have very little writing."

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"No computers, do they have electricity yet?"

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"Can't guarantee they don't but haven't found any evidence of it yet."

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"Fastest way to safely tell teach them all summoning is probably going to depend on local government," Maitimo says. "Findekáno, were your people getting anywhere on non-summoning forms of immortality for humans?"

"Getting somewhere, yes, have a serum for Cam to dump on their heads, no."

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"That'd be an interesting method of administration."

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"More likely in the water supply," he says, "but immortality good enough to spike the water supply with is a much harder problem than immortality as a series of shots administrated annually and we're still in early clinical trials with that."

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"These humans might be clinically distinct anyway. Even Earth humans have ethnic variance."

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