She whimpers a little and squirms--because--not--but r'member bein' human--

I bet I'd have liked you when you were human but you're a demon and that's way hotter.

There is nothing about this situation that is not extremely hot.

Except the state of the world outside. 

He does not comment on this and nibbles some more instead.

Edie is defining "situation" to exclude this! And reacting highly positively to nibbles.

Oh, good. 

And to his bare torso, because seriously, unf.

The span of wings required to lift someone a human size and weight off the ground is pretty broad indeed. If she kisses her way down from his collarbones across his amazing pecs and abs and--lower than that--she can still reach his hair with her wing-fingers.

Aaaaah....Edie....

Yes?

You are delightful. Don't stop.

I know I am. She doesn't stop.

And eventually he will let mild worry at how long it's been downstairs prickle him into getting out of bed. But it's a long eventually. There are chip-loaded blessings for that.

You're fantastic, she tells him, breathing heavily.

So're you.

So what blessings d'you have that let you keep up with a daeva this long?

Hmm? Oh, Maitimo probably doesn't have those either - he's so boring - anyway, we have perfect autonomic control, we can consciously set our heartrate if we choose, most people get it for the sex applications but it's also useful if you're injured or whatever...

Oh, he did and I do, I just sort of forgot about it.

It's not much use if you haven't spent some time actively fiddling with it, it's overwhelming the first couple times.

I'm a demon, I don't really need it, she shrugs.

Right, fair enough. What even happens if you stop your heart, do you know?

It would probably be uncomfortable.

I wish I were a demon.

It's pretty great! The infertility thing is probably less of a downside for men and it's, like, the only downside.

It's enough of one that I'd feel awful about telling everyone on Earth that summoners become daeva, giving them a week, and then killing the Melkor.

I mean, demons can make arbitrary things, if I really want kids I can hire a surrogate and make zygotes containing human-me--or for that matter Elf-me--'s DNA, and so could you if you were a demon, the only thing being a daeva actually prohibits me from is being pregnant, which is regrettable but less salient for the part of the population that couldn't do that anyway.