Nod, nod. "But you do all live forever so you would have lots of time to do culture things... and even little towns can have cultures..."
"I mean, I did say it's not nothing. But you also have the confounding factor of--I'm only referring to the circles I moved in, you understand, I don't know much about anyone else--the confounding factor of trying to stay as far away as possible from anyone whose attention you might regret attracting, and part of that means getting summoned as often as possible and part of that means specifically avoiding doing things that would be too conspicuous."
"Pay attention to any summons general enough to plausibly refer to you and grab it before someone else does."
"Um...I can try to tell you through metaphor what the mental process for grabbing one is like but words really don't exist in any human language for the sensations."
"So it's sort of...like a lot of little portals, at the edge of your consciousness, and most of the time you don't pay any attention to them because none of them are for you know matter how loosely you interpret them, so they're like--glass windows--but every now and then, if you're pushing on them, it'll turn out that one could be interpreted to mean you, and the more generous in your interpretation you have to be to include yourself the harder the barrier is and the harder it is to push through it, so usually someone who fits better grabs it first, but sometimes you can manage to push through even one that feels like stiff rubber, and sometimes it's really definitely for you and then it's like there's no barrier at all."
"If the summons invokes you specifically then you might have to go depending on the summons involved, but if it wants 'a succubus' or 'a wrath demon' or allows leeway for the summonee to stay behind if they want then you can stay."
"Interesting for what? Unless you know enough summoning theory to draw interesting conclusions."
"I think if you're looking at its magical qualities you might want to study basic summoning theory before getting into obscure edge cases."