Antonio turns aside from the conversation he's having with -
- a woman who has horns growing out of her skull, curving in to bracket her face; who has yellow eyes with slitted pupils clearly visible before her fancy forehead-wear; who aside from that is pretty enough that no reasonable amount of faceblanding could possibly let her walk around in public without her being a standards-escalating attractiveness infohazard; and who's dressed in a way that doesn't make her even slightly less hazardous -
- to inform Merrin seriously that this is Albe, a much more powerful economicmagic-user than himself, who's going to confirm that instant-movement economicmagic does in fact work on Merrin, and then try a few other things to see if they can figure out what's going on there. Albe is a trusted highly-paid-Security-cleared-consultant-with-considerable-autonomy-and-authority (three syllables in Baseline) for Governance, and she has hopefully been successfully instructed not to be too sociallyweird at Merrin who just got here from another causal-continuum.
Antonio probably will not end up permanently in charge of Merrin's case. He was just the person on duty in the negotiating-with-other-factions section of Governance when Merrin showed up, and it's been confirmed that this ought to escalate higher. Antonio is however for now charged with setting up Merrin's immediate living quarters, and arrangements for anything else Merrin needs or wants tonight or the next morning. Any requests there?