Edie was perusing the latest correspondence from her fork. She still should have been paying enough attention to realize that the door didn't go where it ought before it swung shut and she couldn't sense anyone else anymore, but she wasn't.
After opening and closing the door a couple times to make sure she hadn't just been abducted somehow, she looks around.
"That's lucky, good for you. Takes forever to find summoners who don't gag their demons."
"Yeah, I'd seen her before since we died but it was always someone she'd talked into summoning me, not vice-versa."
"Well, if you're not well-acquainted with any why would you want that as an intangible in the first place?"
"Could've gotten them to ask someone to summon me and let me have a phone to call my parents before they died."
"Oh. Yeah. My parents are Limboites too. That would have been nice."
"Oak. Grew in the backyard of her childhood home, great for a kid to climb on. I think people make acorn flour from it."
Nod. "My dad's kinda annoyed by the social obligation to have houseguests and clear his fridge out twice a day and have the water running all the time but he copes."
"People make little acorn cakes with the flour and the water from the bathrooms of the library and I think a couple of other things. I've tried 'em, they're okay, but I wouldn't wanna eat nothing else."
"The library's a really good thing, especially if it has a librarian breakroom or something in it."
"There is but it only has a little bit--coffee and common additives, I think some of those go in the cakes, and, like, one sandwich, it's not even competitive with the acorn cakes most of the time."
"I know. Sometimes I wonder if it's because Dad died first and he was really the one thing Mama would have found an afterlife incomplete without."
"Probably not. Somebody'd have noticed if it were much more than chance, I think."
"Yeah. I'm glad they got lucky, though. Both in that and having summoner daughters."
"Yeah, no kidding. It's a pity Concordances are so limited. And so one-sixth clogged by futile racists."
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