"Sure, I can slag them and you can sell the steel or something."

"Mysterious new iron deposits are the kind of thing that conjurors get discovered by attempting. It's a waste of materials, but I would rather not be excessively greedy regarding my total lack of manufacturing costs."

"Okay, I can launch 'em into space, as you like."

"Sinking them in the ocean would probably be less conspicuous, unless you believe that the remains would still be dangerous after they had been fused to slag."

"No, not that dangerous, just a public health no-no to be sticking them into people. Ocean dumping isn't a good habit but a wad of steel is hardly the worst thing you could drop, s'pose."

"If you happened to form the chunks into the vague shapes of ship parts, we could then probably 'salvage' them credibly in a few years' time."

"Sculpting a ship out of medical waste is definitely an angel's job, not a demon's."

"Right, you only make things. I guess we'll have to set that aside for when we have more information on how summoning works in this world."

"Yeah. The way to find that out with minimum risk is to get all the essentials you want from me alone handled, then try dismissing me, then try resummoning me. Some daeva would take serious exception to being stranded if it turned out summoning was one-way here or something."

"That's probably a good idea before we attempt anything with possibly permanent consequences. Do you have a set of standard textbooks from your world that you could conjure for me?"

"On summoning?"

"That wasn't actually my intent, but those would also be useful if they exist. I was thinking more about chemistry, physics, biology, and so on, since your world is apparently much more advanced technologically than mine."

"I mean. Not in a language you know."

"English is likely the most useful, and yeah, I can probably teach it to you. The clinics are a swell idea but I'm wondering if there should be lots of parallel projects. For example, in my world people have invented high-yield, pest-resistant crops, if those would be of particular use anywhere. I can make seeds of 'em."

"I mean, we don't have to implement them all at once, but laying groundwork should be relatively easy to keep surreptitious? Naively. You know the place."

"Each amazing technological breakthrough is going to need a different face behind it: either that, or we need someone prepared to wear the titles of 'genius' and 'polymath.' Setting up that kind of trustworthy agent is not exactly easy. Either that or we need to start dropping 'hints' covertly, and that comes with its own set of attendant risks."

"I mean, I'm indestructible possibly unless someone starts slinging magic, but unfamiliarity with the locale might make me a bad public face. Do you not have, you know, people? You have subjects and people you bite, none of 'em are competent?"

"Competence, trustworthiness, loyalty, and intelligence are different things. I need someone who has all four. My 'subjects' are a downtrodden group of slaves, servants, and lesser vampires. In the vampiric political climate, I can barely manage to keep them alive, let alone happy. There are a few good candidates, but none are so obvious that I would immediately say 'this is the person we need.'"

"Why does the political climate affect how happy you can keep them?"

"The vampiric political climate is that I am unimportant among the noblity and have to deal with other vampires attempting to poach my servants. In the sense that you might poach a deer from another noble's forest."

"So you have to sink resources into defense rather than infrastructure, because the servants don't get enough say in the matter that keeping them happy is a good strategy?"

"Essentially yes. The full answer is longer and uglier than that, but yes."

"...Separate question. I can make an entire, mindless, living human organism. Want to try biting one? They're kind of disturbing to have around, but."