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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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It does turn out that way. He wakes up an undeterminable amount of time later from the lights turning on and both computers returned. They have clearly been tampered with.
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Cam inspects one to see if he can get into it and, if he can, to check to see if the data's been broken into.
It seems they've not managed to get at anything, and they still work fine.
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Okay, cool.
He backs out of the encryption and sews it all back up like it was and then he makes twenty blank ones.
He backs out of the encryption and sews it all back up like it was and then he makes twenty blank ones.
Nothing happens. They don't disappear.
The voice that responds is quite different, an actual synthesized one rather than the cut and paste of Cams own voice they used before. It is still based of it.
"Empty? Data word learn."
"Empty? Data word learn."
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"You want computers with data on them so you can learn words?" Cam asks.
"Yes!"
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"Okay."
Cam makes a data stick with some nice impersonal English-language corpus on it. Books and audio renderings thereof, principally. He dumps the contents of the stick into each of the twenty computers.
"There."
Cam makes a data stick with some nice impersonal English-language corpus on it. Books and audio renderings thereof, principally. He dumps the contents of the stick into each of the twenty computers.
"There."
They promptly disappear. A minute later the voice speaks again: "About Cam?"
"Learn."
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"Well, I'm a demon and somehow your robot thing summoned me and now I'm kind of annoyed because you've been keeping me in a box and stealing my stuff, but you seem to be friendlier today."
"Sorry automatic rude. Learn demon me?"
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"Demons are a kind of daeva. We look about like humans but with wings, usually, and I have a tail too, some demons have those, some add other things. We make stuff."
"Make demon, make human demonstrate?"
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"Can't make people. Or very good animals. I can do a plant if you want."
"Yes. Demonstrate."
It disappears. A while later, a hologram of the summoning circle that got him here appears again.
"Understand work? Indirect make demon?"
"Understand work? Indirect make demon?"
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"I don't know why that circle worked. And it didn't make me, it brought me here from where I live. It doesn't look like summoning circles usually look. If it worked once, it might work if you drew it again, but I don't think you should do it a second time. I'm very nice, but if I wasn't very nice, when you brought me here and were very rude I could have made a black hole. You shouldn't be rude to loose daeva."
"Black hole?"
"Orbit demonstrate small?"