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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
"My first semester of pilot lessons don't start for a month, right? If there's anybody else interested in a layer of topsoil I can do another batch of those. Anybody want me to do architecting? Janvia, do you know how to pilot anything that flies?"
from_scratch
"Okay, if you can fly something in that case I can send you off to de-radiate some radioactive locations, I'm not a useful accomplice for that."
thisvorlunatic
"Good," says Miles. "I have a location I would very much like de-radiated."
from_scratch
"Said location is also a good place to go flying without anybody underfoot going, 'it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a mutie shoot it'," Cam adds.
thisvorlunatic
Miles snickers.
"Well, it won't stay that way indefinitely after you de-radiate it, but until the point where I figure out a way to publicly announce that Vorkosigan Vashnoi is back - yes. I'll give you directions."
"Well, it won't stay that way indefinitely after you de-radiate it, but until the point where I figure out a way to publicly announce that Vorkosigan Vashnoi is back - yes. I'll give you directions."
from_scratch
"And until you have something for me to architect or places for me to do my demonic gardening I have lots of books to read."
thisvorlunatic
"Very true. All right."
Miles procures directions to Vorkosigan Vashnoi and sends Janvia off to de-radiate it, in a demonically produced lightflyer whose controls fit her specifications. She seems rather irrepressibly cheerful about her assigned task.
Miles procures directions to Vorkosigan Vashnoi and sends Janvia off to de-radiate it, in a demonically produced lightflyer whose controls fit her specifications. She seems rather irrepressibly cheerful about her assigned task.
from_scratch
And Cam goes and reads books, which leaves Miles quite free to do whatever else he'd like to do with his day.
thisvorlunatic
"I'm whining about my hopeless crush, that's what's going on," he says. "I resummoned Cam just fine, and we moved on to trying to find him an angelic assistant, and somehow the subject of Cam having his demonic way with people just happened to come up multiple times. Apparently people from his universe are going to make assumptions about how I am repaying him for all his demon-ing until told otherwise."
middlingalong
"Did all of this at least leave you with an idea of whether he's into men?"
thisvorlunatic
"No!" he says despairingly. "He is verifiably into women, because by some incredible coincidence, one of the angels I summoned just happened to be a former summoner of his. With whom he was invited to have his demonic way. Repeatedly, I gather. But - I don't know, he didn't treat the idea of people making assumptions about us as inherently disgusting, that leaves a wide range of possibilities."
middlingalong
"At least you know now that he doesn't consider summoner/demon relationships to be inherently problematic for power differential type reasons?"
