"Thanks. 

Sorry. Maitimo said not to mention it."

"It's okay. Not like I don't think about it a lot anyway."

"Was - was it quick -"

"Instant."

He closes his eyes. "Thank you."

"You're welcome."

And after a long moment's pause he takes the food and book and goes upstairs.

So Cam writes Maitimo, unbeknownst to me I wrote a book?

How does that happen?

One of my students recorded all my lectures and saved all my handouts and published them in book form. Bar gave it to Findekáno when he asked for a book on daeva.

Of course my evil alt wants to learn summoning. 'None of our world's music has ever been recorded, but we'll sing it for you' will probably sell fine, too.

Yeah. We don't actually know if summoning works here.

Should we check so we're not surprised if he acquires himself some friends -

Probably. You want me there to pay an angel or whatever?

I'll come to you so the bar's not unoccupied.

Yeah.

So he comes downstairs, pulls up a circle on his computer - "can you do all but one line -"

"Yeah sure -" Here it is.

And now it's a summoning circle.

No bites. Cam relaxes.

"Wonder if the principle at work is 'summoning doesn't work in Milliways' or 'summoning doesn't work in dimensions without native daeva realms', the latter will be annoying for ending scarcity in the multiverse..."

"Yeah, have to expand the transit to accommodate cargo..."

"Or just accommodate daeva, if bindings stick when someone enters a new dimension."

"Edie still have hers? Of course Milliways might be a fluke there. She could step into Singularity for a sec..."

"I thought she must not because it prohibits killing people, which she was debating doing, but she observed that it prohibited killing people in a way that destroyed their chips, which was fine on Valinor but isn't actually safe anywhere else."