"I love you." Kiss.

"If they get their minds set on surpassing one another soon the major outlay of this organization will be courtship presents."

"They don't even seem to require the extravagance."

"It's the principle, apparently. I did not dare ask what principle."

"I bet you guessed, though."

"It's about the - aesthetic experience of thinking of something he'd like her to have and then never ever having to think 'is this actually worth the effort that would go into it' because he has taken that off the table and is just giving her all the things he'd like her to have. It's cute and all, I'm just alarmed at the prospects of a courtship arms race."

"As described it's not necessarily a competition-based aesthetic..."

"Maybe I will just suggest they don't tell each other about their plans until they're done, so it doesn't turn into one." He shakes his head. "I'm glad rainbow planet's handled all the same, we should probably have things like 'have extremely unusual unfulfilled preferences' in the charts somehow."

"Probably. Anything else that floats up if we prioritize that -"

"Don't know yet, can put some people on it. Their colony planets should all be in Revelation, if there are gonna be a hundred billion of them soon enough and they continue to have the sentimental attachment to the death penalty that other people have to ice cream trucks and puppies."

"We desperately need a way to handle demons learning about worldleapers and egg-laying species."

"Uh huh. That's actually what I wanted to talk about, the Macalaurës just being a tangentially related sideshow. People who non-malevolently want to hatch a kid will probably be perfectly happy to do that under loose bindings somewhere in Revelation - protects their kid from accidents or deliberate action by other daeva, means their kid can be fetched out of Limbo or summoned out of the daeva realms if they die some other way - it'll stress the Solar governments in Revelation out but I bet we can come up with a way of checking that no underbound daeva are leaping over to visit which they'd be satisfied with -

- worldleapers are the hard problem."

"I don't suppose the think tank of your dad et al have come up with a way to make them not work in a certain world."

"Sure, soon as 'change the laws of physics in arbitrary dimensions' is in our portfolio."

"Get my rocks to work farther away and you're covered." Sigh. "Or the wish machine. Hell is adjacent to literally five other worlds, I suppose we could just have someone ready to intercept at all times..."

"We could have someone checking often enough to tell a precog in time but then we have told a demon what they're checking for and that makes it likelier to get out. And I don't get the sense that that's Cam's favorite job and one he wishes we'd up the frequency on."

"Forensics is not his favorite, no. Are any of the demons with adopted children trustworthy enough -"

"Not to deliberately share it yes, not to thoughtlessly mention it - probably? They're lovely people, just "keep this information secret in every sense including by keeping secret things about your job that would let people guess it" isn't a natural style of thinking. Maybe we should find some ex-human ex-cops or something."

"If any cops turned into demons in particular."

"Not many, one imagines, but probably not none. I can have people look, at least.... we're going to be squeezed really tightly for planets for the next while if we can't find a way to make demons more accessible..."

"Yeah. People who can go anywhere can go in range of Wish and get a planet in ten seconds apiece, people in range of here have their pick of what I can find and I could branch into coalescing planets out of space dust if necessary, but if they need to be anywhere else..."

"Epic's done stuff for the people in Cube who petitioned for more in that neighborhood and one for the people in 403 - magic system has religious significance and you've gotta be a local - but he'll get bored if he has to do that often and I'd rather the rainbow colony planets be in Revelation than in Space because I don't love the idea of that much traffic going through Hell and a summoning rollout among rainbows will be touchy and I want 'em immortal even without one."

"We could route the traffic through Fairyland or Heaven but I suppose that doesn't help much."

" - Heaven or Fairyland might do it if lightleapers don't function normally there - and is an improvement even if they do, because it'd be harder for an angel or fairy to get one. Heaven or Fairyland and an unthinkable distance away."

"It's hard to go fast in Heaven at all."