"Spaceship now explanations when we break orbit."

"I guess if you're lying you don't really need me to go along with whatever this is..." He gets in the spaceship.

The Simurgh is flying as usual, sixty-two miles above the earth's surface.

Cam will relax when she's still doing that and he's past the moon.

She doesn't chase them. She doesn't give any indication that anything happened at all.

"Start with why there's an Endbringer after me!"

"Because you yoinked me into the world, and if you die I yoink out of it again, and I'm just full to bursting with the kind of prosocial ambition known to keep the Simurgh up at night. I would absolutely relieve you of this feature if I could do it without being stuck at home, but I can't, because for some reason the process isn't replicating in the way I expect it to."

"No part of that made sense."

"Well, we have a long flight, I can give you the long version. I am from another world. I am a sort of magical creature, which can be pulled from my home to Earth. Normally it is not this Earth but a markedly less horrible one, but for some reason you managed to be the first person to get a magical creature of my variety here. I tried to have somebody summon an additional magical creature, but it didn't work. So that means I am the only one this Earth gets, and your particular summoning of me is the only chance this Earth gets to have me around, and it badly needs the help. Summonings end on the summoner's death. The Simurgh managed to get me to start a war in China with pomegranates by threatening your life, I don't want more of the same, I will make you a lovely arcology on Mars and you can have Internet access."

"I'm immortal. I actually find the fact that she had to extort me very encouraging, because it suggests that singing to me wouldn't have done the trick. I apologize for the solitary conditions. When I figure out a way to kill her I will happily bring you back, or just finish terraforming the place - I'd do it now but it'd take weeks - and bring some colonists. Hopefully the Internet connection will help; it'll lag but the bandwidth will be fine. I can take other requests for what would make you more comfortable too."

"I was planning to show up to Endbringer fights. If I'm not immune I will get in touch with you about that. There is a plausible but not overwhelmingly determined reason why I might be, though. And I'm not planning to colonize Mars while she is still around because I do know what happened to the moon guy and even if I'm immune I don't want to attract her to bystanders."

"For all I know Mars isn't far enough. Just how badly does she want you gone?"

"If her top priority was getting me gone you would already be dead."

"I replaced Kyushu including everything that was there pre-Leviathan minus the vertebrates and contents of refrigerators, you tell me, do I seem like I might interest the Simurgh?"

"...maybe, yeah."

"So you can see why I'm concerned. I am not in personal danger of death; but I'm here to do good and if anybody could get me doing more harm than good it's her; so if she's going to extort me I need to be non-extortable."

"And this works? She still could threaten to kill me, if anyone can reach this far it's her."

"I'm not going to make any more things on her say-so. Getting anywhere farther than Mars would take ages, and if she can and will chase you to Mars there's no reason to expect Titan to be out of reach. Would you like me to put you in an autopiloted spaceship on a trajectory of 'away' until and unless I or someone figures out how to kill her, instead?"

"You can have an entire Taj Mahal, no problem."