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Cam is dipping a grilled cheese sandwich into a bowl of tomato soup when he feels the summons. He goes ahead and grabs it. Doesn't even drop the sandwich.
Adanya summons Demon Cam
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from_scratch
"Wouldn't expect you to. Anyway, what's your plan for sending me home? I am highly nervous about having you do it the usual way when I'm now metaphysically attached to another organism. Summonings and dismissals do not conventionally involve passengers."
stars_and_sky
"... I need to understand the method I used to summon you before I can think of putting you back. It wasn't a witch spell." She motions to the circle. "And what's the 'usual way' of putting you back?"
from_scratch
"I'm not sure I want to tell you yet, in case you decide to try it before I'm convinced it'll avoid horrible snake-related fallout. I am very new to having to worry about horrible snake-related fallout."
"...I have demon magic," observes Atriama. "Excuse me, summoner, but what exactly would count as 'touching' me, can I just laminate myself and call it good?"
"...I have demon magic," observes Atriama. "Excuse me, summoner, but what exactly would count as 'touching' me, can I just laminate myself and call it good?"
stars_and_sky
"I wasn't going to send you back unless you'd like me to. Especially considering 'horrible snake-related fallout.' That would be cruel. Someone physically touching you is what does it, Atriama. Laminating yourself would probably fix the problem, but it might be uncomfortable."
from_scratch
"I wasn't going to laminate all of me at once. Am I going to shed occasionally like a normal snake?" Atriama asks, peering at her tail. "I wonder if I have the other usual daeva properties. Would I normally need to eat, drink, or breathe? If I didn't belong to a demon?"
"The method," sighs Cam, "is concentrating on getting rid of me, for about a minute."
"The method," sighs Cam, "is concentrating on getting rid of me, for about a minute."
stars_and_sky
"You should shed occasionally. You don't need to eat or drink, but you can anyway. Breathing's required, you are alive."
She looks at Cam. "Thank you. Obviously I won't try to just get rid of you without asking first."
She looks at Cam. "Thank you. Obviously I won't try to just get rid of you without asking first."
from_scratch
"Holding my breath now," reports Atriama.
"This is not at all obvious," Cam tells her. "Most people who summon me don't even let me speak."
"This is not at all obvious," Cam tells her. "Most people who summon me don't even let me speak."
from_scratch
"There is a concern that demons will talk summoners out of their souls. The theological kind, not the kind with bones and verbal IQs."
stars_and_sky
"How... odd. Are you capable of - talking people out of the 'theological' souls?"
from_scratch
"I've never tried. Ask whether I'm capable of collecting if somebody offered me one."
from_scratch
"No. Far as I know nobody can and it's just a mean joke, but it's a mean joke played on desperate people who might come up with more substantial things to trade if there were too much common knowledge polluting the market."
from_scratch
"We are obviously coming from very different cultural contexts here. For instance, while I've been summoned by a stark naked woman before, it wasn't our first meeting."
stars_and_sky
Blink, blink.
"... Do you have mortal sensibilities? I can put on my silks if you'd prefer."
"... Do you have mortal sensibilities? I can put on my silks if you'd prefer."
from_scratch
"I'm neither offended nor repelled, but it's yet another example of how Our Souls Resemble The Contents Of A Pet Shop Land is different from what I'm accustomed to. Nudity is a witch thing? What else is a witch thing?"
stars_and_sky
"Witches don't care about nudity," she shrugs. "I wear silks when I'm around my dad, but my brother's so used to witch culture that he also doesn't care. We don't use money, and instead tend to pay in favors. I'm a member of a witch clan, one I joined... somewhat recently." She shows her wrist - there's a tattoo of an unfamiliar symbol on it. "There's also an... issue with some witches claiming mortals at daggerpoint. I am against it."
from_scratch
"I applaud your radical political stance. Claiming them for what?"
"I'm pretty sure I don't have to breathe more than you do, Cam," Atriama reports.
"I'm pretty sure I don't have to breathe more than you do, Cam," Atriama reports.
stars_and_sky
"Husbands, though I suspect that some women have been claimed at daggerpoint, too. The mortal gets the choice of 'marry me or die.' Or so." She looks like she has a bad taste in her mouth.
"... Why don't you need to breathe?"
"... Why don't you need to breathe?"
from_scratch
"I mean, I prefer to breathe, but I don't get more than a certain tolerable amount of uncomfortable from just plain not doing it," says Cam. "I'm indestructible."
from_scratch
"It is," says Cam.
"I wonder if I won't shed, in that case," muses Atriama. "Or if I can avoid the touching problem just by declaring my scales not part of my body? Unfortunately I'm not sure how to comfortably test it."
"I wonder if I won't shed, in that case," muses Atriama. "Or if I can avoid the touching problem just by declaring my scales not part of my body? Unfortunately I'm not sure how to comfortably test it."