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Cam is out flying. There's a decent cloud of atmosphere around the gold plane, now, millenia of demons making air around themselves for comfort and not sealing it up because why would you bother. There's a small forest, here - the effect is kind of ruined by the lamps it has to grow under, but it's still pretty.
He feels an open summons and lets it grab him -
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from_scratch
from_scratch
So Cam makes a glass-bottomed lightflyer, and peers out of the glass bottom while Miles flies it over places that need topsoil. He goes to various warehouses-and-suchlike carefully cleared of the easily startled, and fills them with the contents of Gregor's shopping list.
He makes sure Miles has a copy of a nonbinding Cam summoning circle to copy out.
"Is there anything else that should be got out of the way before you dismiss me?"
He makes sure Miles has a copy of a nonbinding Cam summoning circle to copy out.
"Is there anything else that should be got out of the way before you dismiss me?"
thisvorlunatic
"Nnno," he says, somewhat reluctantly. "No, I think we've hit all the highlights. And you have a nice long reading list of modern goodies in case the resummoning part doesn't work, right? Come to think of it, that's worth checking too - while you're there, see if you can conjure our books as easily as you conjure ones from your world. Who knows if it works the same way."
from_scratch
"I can conjure daeva summoning textbooks that were never published here while I'm here, I assume the reverse holds, but I'll go ahead and check if you want to leave me a minute in my house before you fetch me back again."
thisvorlunatic
"All right. I'll dismiss you, and try summoning you again in a minute, and then try a few more times after that if the first one doesn't work, in case you just weren't answering for some reason. Any other tips for my resummoning protocol?"
from_scratch
"That's pretty much it. Do you want me to make most of the first circle for you, save you some time?"
from_scratch
Cam makes a dry-erase sheet on the floor, with most of a Cam-summoning circle on it, and hands Miles a marker with which to fill in the gap. "There you are."
thisvorlunatic
"Right. See you soon, I hope."
Dismiss dismiss dismiss. He wants Cam to go away. Well, not ultimately, no, but he wants Cam to go away temporarily so that he can be verifiably brought back and they can proceed to summoning other daeva. Dismiss dismiss dismiss.
Dismiss dismiss dismiss. He wants Cam to go away. Well, not ultimately, no, but he wants Cam to go away temporarily so that he can be verifiably brought back and they can proceed to summoning other daeva. Dismiss dismiss dismiss.
thisvorlunatic
Well, that was the expected result.
Miles waits another minute after that, somehow, bouncing impatiently, and then fills in the last little bit of the circle.
Miles waits another minute after that, somehow, bouncing impatiently, and then fills in the last little bit of the circle.
from_scratch
There is a pause.
And then there is a Cam, holding a copy of Introduction to Five-Dimensional Physics.
"Hello again!"
And then there is a Cam, holding a copy of Introduction to Five-Dimensional Physics.
"Hello again!"
from_scratch
"So that works completely as normal. Also, my clock thinks that time passes at the same rate there and here, so that's another balance of evidence in favor of the 'completely alternate universes' theory."
thisvorlunatic
"Interesting. So the next step is... summoning random angels until we get one who doesn't mind working with you?"
from_scratch
"Yeah, pretty much. And asking the ones who do mind working with me if they also mind medical postings."
from_scratch
Cam helps. "Should you be informing interested parties of my reappearance?"
thisvorlunatic
"Yeah. I'll call my boss later. But I don't see much reason to delay starting the slog for an angel."
from_scratch
"Do you have a hospital ready to receive any angels who don't wish to be my assistant but are qualified to be dispatched to same?"
thisvorlunatic
"Not right this second... that's going to take time to set up. The 'otherworldly magic' thing is a bit of a hard sell. I was thinking along the lines of doing a round of speedy interviews, taking down names, and then having the list ready when the hospital positions come through."
thisvorlunatic
"I think the 'how do you feel about working with demons' part will get more informative answers if the demon in question is present looking all demonic, but if you'd rather not suffer through the reactions, I can do it all myself."