"I hope it'll be fun," says Uamok. "Obviously we've never been to one before."

"Nothing like it in your world?"

"Not that I know of! I haven't been all over."

"Huh. Well, if it gets to be too much for you you can always come back to the zoo, I don't let it get too crowded."

"Oh, that might be nice," says Kiv. "It's a good zoo."

"I'm glad you like it. You can come by any other time, too, I'm there most of the day."

"We have zoos but they only have our kinds of animals."

"Do you have any interesting ones?"

"They're not as interesting to me as yours but I guess maybe they would be to hummun who came to see them. They've got a tankful of divers, and giant woolies, and some really colorful fliers..."

He asks what they all look like and what kinds of climates they like.

Zoi jumps in when Kiv looks a little talked out and can fill in much of this information.

It sounds like people here would be interested in seeing them! Probably none of them would be a good idea to bring to the desert, unfortunately - maybe the king will agree to have a cool house built for them. Do they think it'd be hard for the royal family to hire someone from their world to help out, if they do import some?

"I bet you can hire someone, we're just kind of hard to feed here because we need spren."

"I think we'll be interested in trying. What kind of climate do spren like?"

"They live all the same places we do on our world except... uh... polar research stations, boats..."

"It sounds like we should have Raafi bring some over, then."

"Yeah! You can probably farm them more cheaply than we can because they freak out when they smell us. Though they're working on ways to make it so they can't smell, my aunt said."

"I expect that's possible to do magically," he says, somewhat hesitantly. "I'd want to meet some before I recommended it."

"It's probably cheaper to use drugs once we can do that at all," says Zoi.

"I suppose that's not very different. Did I hear right that you're considering having some of us go over to raise them?"

"It'd make sense, especially if the drugs don't work out, they probably don't care about your smell at all."

"I'd think that would be better for them than taking one of their senses away. I suppose we'll see what happens."

"I suppose so," Zoi agrees. "My aunt's a farmer but I don't know that much about it."