"All right, that narrows it down - these four all have strong bio departments with geneticists that publish a lot, I can't assess the quality of their work directly -" he touches his hair, "do you want to read some papers, or look at pictures of the campuses, or have me email their boards asking about how generous they can be with housing if you want to live on campus -"

"Give me a paper so I can see if Allspeak covers the jargon well enough, and if that doesn't work then the housing option?"

He finds the genetics department chair's most prominently posted research paper for each school and sends them to her.

There are some concepts she isn't familiar with but she manages to keep up well enough. She's very much looking forward to catching up on these new ideas!

She picks the university associated with the paper by a Korel be Sharon de Breon.

"My secretary will get you folks some hotel rooms in the city for the time being while university housing shakes out, you can tell her how many rooms and how many beds. How would you like your immigration bonus?"

"I should probably get a local bank account of some sort."

"She can help you with that too! And with directions to the university by train or teleporter as you prefer. Or I can come along and make introductions if you wish."

"I think I'll be fine with directions, but thank you."

"All right, I'll hand you back over to her. Thank you so much for choosing Voa, I hope you'll love it here."

The secretary has directions, and a bank transfer ready to start Saerltes's new account with, and also an introduction to Amentan law. The most relevant thing, highlighted, is that Amentans have very strenuous cleanliness standards. Their bus will have been through a magic cleaning field on the way in, they just do that with all the buses, but now that they're here they will need to obey posted signs in bathrooms, manage illness and suspected illness according to local standards, and pursue qualifying decontamination procedures (quick, magic, spendy or slow, wet, and free) after this list of events should any occur.

This is actually kind of a relief; cleanliness isn't really something you can prioritize in a war zone and an emphasis thereon is--nice, in its way. They can certainly take it in stride, at least. 

And, thus equipped, they can make their way to the university. 

The university is a lovely old campus with giant-windowed stone buildings. They have been introduced by email to the research hospital director and the head of the genetics department and funding suitable to her installation in the university has been advanced via the board.

Saerltes would like to introduce herself to the research hospital director and the head of the genetics department in person at their earliest convenience! 

The research hospital director has time that afternoon!

The head of the genetics department has time somewhat sooner!

She will meet with the head of the genetics department somewhat sooner, then! She confirms the time to meet. 

At the appointed time, she knocks on the department head's door. 

The head of the genetics department opens the door. 

The two of them stare at each other for a moment. 

"--I have an alt," Korel says in delighted realization after a moment. "Or I had better--if you're just a huge coincidence I'm going to be very disappointed at this point honestly--"

"How does one tell? The idea of alts is fairly new to me, it took me a moment to remember after you said it." 

"Tell me about your family," the Amentan suggests.

"I have two daughters and a dead wife. I was dead until my daughters wound up here and got a loan to bring me back, and I want to bring my wife back as soon as I can." 

"--I'm sorry to hear that. I have a husband, not a wife, I don't know if that matters--I do also have two daughters, twins..." 

"Mine are twins too, although that was on purpose on my part. I imagine you can't do that...?" 

"You sort of can, but in my case it was entirely a happy accident. Ada and Amila; Ada followed me into genetics, Amila does sculpture. And other art, but mostly sculpture." 

"My Aduva is a political scholar and activist--or she was, before the war--Amalta does all kinds of arts, I wouldn't have thought to single out sculpture in particular."

"...My Ada certainly has political opinions, but," she tugs her hair. "She's green. Intercaste, but my husband is grey, not blue, and Voa is matrilineal anyway."