do: make introductions; don't: usurp the government

[giftedandtalented]

Tab goes home by door, right into Aelise's office. "Hello again."

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[areyouabeer]

"Top of the CN Tower, of course."

[giftedandtalented]

Pop.

[areyouabeer]

It's empty of people up here, which is mildly unusual.

Luhan looks around, inhales, and nods.

"Yeah," he says, "you brought back Toronto, all right. What are you gonna do with it?"

[giftedandtalented]

"Well, I'm taking requests on who else to bring back and will be making places to put them, since I imagine plenty of people from here had friends who died later - or earlier - in unrelated ways. So I'm using it as a jumping-off point to populate this planet with. It's possible the actual structures here won't be inhabited for that long; I mean, Toronto comes with its own micro-economy, I'm not going to interfere directly with it except to ensure that there's food and water incoming despite the lack of farms, really, but I'm not planning to build anything that requires rent paid or what have you. Anybody dead you want back?"

[areyouabeer]

"Not especially."

[giftedandtalented]

"Okay. And the people here can know what all has happened since they've been gone," she waves at the cityscape bordered by its alien trees, "but if you want to go back to Earth please don't spread it around. Aelise knows, obviously."

[areyouabeer]

"Obviously," he agrees.

[giftedandtalented]

"Do you want to go back to Earth anytime soon?"

[areyouabeer]

He looks past the edge of the city, to the treetops that average a little higher than eye level from here.

"The forest is interesting, I gotta say."

[giftedandtalented]

"I like it, yeah."

[areyouabeer]

"There's really no animals on the planet?"

[giftedandtalented]

"Possible there are sea creatures, I didn't check." She checks. "Nope."

[areyouabeer]

"Bizarre."

[giftedandtalented]

"Well, there are animals on it now," she says merrily, gesturing at Toronto.

[areyouabeer]

He snorts.

[giftedandtalented]

"Actually, I should probably worry about invasive species nibbling up all the cool alien plants." She snaps her fingers; the nonhuman life of Toronto is stuck within its borders until she thinks of something else. "There."

[areyouabeer]

"Good thinking."

[giftedandtalented]

"I am rather good at thinking."

[areyouabeer]

He chuckles.

[giftedandtalented]

"You didn't say if you were staying or going. You can decide later, if you want to just brainphone me if you need a lift."

[areyouabeer]

"You don't have better things to do than be the interplanetary taxi service?"

[giftedandtalented]

"I have lots of things to do, but I can do a lot of them all at once."

[areyouabeer]

"Because on the one hand, I want to climb those trees, and on the other hand, I want to get home sometime today."

[giftedandtalented]

"I really will take you back when you want to go back. If you don't believe me I can introduce you to someone else who can do it."

[areyouabeer]

He shrugs. "There's always Aelise, if I'm that hard up."