" - What can you make?"

(The planet is definitely not Earth.

"Material objects. Where on here are we?"

She points. They're at the southern end of a small continent. "Can you make bodies and do they have souls in them if you do?"

"- so, I'm not used to thinking of souls as being a thing, per se, but I can make bodies and they don't have minds."

"How much do you charge and what do you accept payment in?"

"As you might imagine demons are pretty hard to pay but I am presently in the market for a native guide!"

"I can offer you that. How many people can I get out of their jars for how much native guidance?"

"...all the people who are in all the jars for the amount of native guidance that occurs during the process of reaching all those jars, specifying what kinds of bodies they want, etcetera?"

"Do you just want to end aging and disease?"

"I would love to just end aging and disease!"

"Okay, well, I'm going to go get my great-great-great grandmother and Chanai can - actually, you should also make Chanai whatever materials he asks for so he can cast spells. Normal spell materials include things like herbs and crystals."

"The spells for getting people out of jars and into new bodies?"

"Yeah, Chanai is good at magic. I've got my great-great-great grandmother and a random orphan and a mystery collection my great-great-great grandmother could probably identify and my mother but she's an asshole and can go last, and by 'last' I mean let's save every dying person in Zorvey first. I'll think how best to do that - we can't do it for free because even if spell materials are free and bodies are free Chanai's time isn't free, but we can be cheaper than a death lottery."

"Do other people with skills like Chanai's both exist and want material objects?"

"Yeah. And more people could do the spell we'll need over and over than could do everything Chanai can do. Anyway, ask him and Tyela your questions for a second, I'll be right back."

"So hi," Cam says to Chanai and Tyela, "my name's Cam and apparently I'm here to end aging and disease."

"I'm Chanai and this is Tyela - "

"Hi! We're very against aging and disease around here. They suck."

"It's very nice to meet you, Cam."

Wag wag wag.

"What's it like in Hell?" Tyela asks.

"It began as absolutely nothing forever in all directions. Then a bunch of us started showing up and making things, so now it's got lots of things, anything anybody spent a moment wanting. - so it's really really tacky."

"Ohhhh boy," says Tyela, who thinks that sounds awful.

"Do you have aging and disease there?" Chanai asks.

"No, we're all immortal."

"So no rush to send humans there to help you move into new bodies," says Chanai.

"Not at all! And the humans in the world where I'm usually summoned to do have aging and disease but they also have an afterlife. It's not that nice but it'll keep till somebody figures out how to get there."

"Humans here reincarnate but it's not the same. Mermaids don't even reincarnate, as far as anyone knows."