Then she can email herself "testing" and wait for it to show up in her inbox and read it.

"Bear in mind there's not much verification that someone is who they say they are, you can get an email address in a new name or even a fake name. People who make it here abuse that less than people topside but less isn't none."

He nods. "I'll keep that in mind."

Then she can walk him through getting an email address and filling out the form. It's not a very long form; he just needs to give them contact information, date of arrival, size of household, and which if any hours of the day he most needs quiet. There's a freeform field to list additional requirements, if any, and there's a checkbox to tell them it's unusually urgent and a freeform box to tell them why that is.

That's simple enough; he keeps fairly early hours and is otherwise pretty easy to accommodate, though he does ask what kinds of additional things people tend to ask for.

"That the kitchen should already be kosher, that the neighbors should appreciate amateur drum playing, that everyone in the household needs a separate bedroom, that the feng shui should be good, just... stuff."

He considers this. "-I suppose I ought to mention that I won't be staying very long. Since I'm a cleric of the god of travel."

"Hm. About how long do you expect to stay?"

"Probably at least one month and no more than three - I can manage shorter pretty easily if that's an awkward length for some reason."

"Mm. People do stay that long, sometimes. If it were going to be a week I'd see if we could get you a hotel room instead."

"Ah. Well, I expect there's more than a week's worth of things to see here."

"There really is. Welcome to New Jerusalem. It's to die for."

Hee.

"So, that's housing, and I'll be handling my own food in the short term - it sounds like you do use money here, what do I need to know about that?"

"There's a way to do it electronically - uh, over the computer - but there's also physical currency and it's arguably safer to stick to that. You will have to pay for almost everything, other than food and housing. Well, the housing comes with water and wifi, too. And sometimes you can get old clothes for free if people are giving them away. You, uh... do work for people, and then they give you money. There are websites for finding work, you can look them up later, but basically if you agree to an hourly rate it usually shouldn't be less than two silver - they're not made of silver but that's what they're called. In the older parts of town people are more likely to haggle when they're buying things, especially at one of the outdoor markets. That happens less in some of the newer neighborhoods and pretty rarely if you're buying online. And taxes exist, there are taxes on, uh... buildings, but you won't be owning one so it won't matter to you, and cosmetic surgery, and sales taxes on, lemme look it up... incense, silk, cotton, perfume, gold and silver jewelry, gold and silver drinking vessels, Tyrian purple, indigo, cars, gasoline, coal, computer games, live animals, plastic objects, habit-forming psychoactive substances, and inhaled substances likely to be offensive to neighbors. The responsibility for those is on the person selling things, so you have to worry about that if you're selling but not if you're shopping. And that's... pretty much everything, I think?"

"Hm. Just to check, there won't be any problems with me selling spells? I don't have anything that obviously overlaps with that list, but I'm not sure how you're defining cosmetic surgery exactly and I have healing spells, and summoning isn't selling a live animal but it's not entirely unrelated."

"Congratulations, I have literally never fielded either of those questions before. Let's see... procedures are medically necessary if they prevent or reduce pain or loss of normal function, and they're cosmetic if they do neither of those things and change shape, size, appearance, number of limbs - I guess what I paid for these must've included tax but I only checked the total," she says, wiggling her wings. "And if they reduce function or increase pain. Uh, so you know, though, if your healing magic just does normal healing you're not going to have all that many takers because dead people regenerate. And I would probably need to know what summoning is, exactly."

"Summoning calls a creature or group of creatures from another plane to this one, for a few minutes at most, and some of the creatures are basically animals. I like it as a sort of defensive spell - if I'm attacked I can summon something to distract the attacker while I run - or for utility reasons - if there was a fire I'd summon a group of water creatures to help put it out."

"...I don't think that should count."

He nods. "What happens if it turns out you're wrong about that?"

"The realistic worst case scenario is that you end up owing taxes, then. In theory they can add interest when people deliberately refuse to pay but... there's absolutely nothing on here about summoning animals, and what you're describing isn't selling them - maybe it's buying them, I guess - and they don't charge interest on back taxes when there's a good-faith mix-up. Which they'd conclude this was, because you asked me about it and I told you what the law says and I gave you my educated guess about whether it applies to you. And they will know I did that because, uh, people appearing from previously unknown worlds is important and I am going to write a report about it, on which topic you should let me know if you've told me anything very private."

"I'm not especially in the habit of keeping secrets, but the person I was talking to on the bus seemed a little concerned when I mentioned being a cleric, I might not want that being spread around without context if it's going to alarm people."

"...Why would that alarm people? I mean, we can keep that quiet, but what are you worried about there?"

"I don't actually know, it's just that their first thought when I mentioned it was that it had something to do with demons. If it was just that one person I won't worry about it."

"Aha. The top two most popular religions among the living teach that there is only one god and anything else is either an angel, which is his servant, or a demon, which is evil. Most people, once they get here, realize neither of those religions is... well... true. But also all the very powerful entities seem to be broadly the same category of person, like all humans are humans even if they have different personalities, and most of them are terrible, so some people end up applying a word like 'demon' to the whole category. It's not really fair but you can expect half the people you meet to assume your god is either made up or 'a demon'." She adds sarcastic airquotes. "But none of them should hurt you about it or anything. There's a weird number of people out there going 'well, I guess Jesus is actually a demon' and celebrating his birthday and singing his praises."

"That's... really strange. Well, the place I'm from has lots of sorts of people, most of which are relatively normal mortals but some of which aren't, and we do have gods, several of them, and types of people who my translation magic says would be recognizable as angels and demons, which are noticeably distinct from each other."

"If you've met them personally you can just tell people that."