I have a crush on demon cam not the kind where you kiss them the kind where you torture them
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"We'd love to learn more about your world and about demons - which we've never encountered before - but I've told all our sociologists to hold off for now, in case there were things you wanted to cover first. We have a team of people working to learn about how you got here and whether we can send you back safely, and we have a tour lined up if you'd like to learn your way around."

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"I'd like a tour, yeah. What do you want to know?"

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"Let's start the tour this way! We'll head through some residential areas towards the city center, there's a lot more to point out once we get there. What is a demon? What can they do?"

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"Demons are a kind of daeva, which means we can summon them. Or usually can, I tried to get a fairy to convince to translate with the orcs earlier but it didn't work. Demons are the kind that make things, you've seen it."

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"Huh, do you have any idea why trying to get a fairy didn't work?" They walk past some elaborate trimmed hedges and flower gardens between residences. There's an elevator at the end of the hall; it's just a platform on the floor with partial walls, no ceiling.

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"I don't know," says Jim. She stops to smell the flowers. "Generic circles are usually answered right away, it's not like I was trying for someone in particular and they were in the shower right then.
Hoo boy that's a heck of an elevator you could fall right out of that thing."

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" - oh, I'm sorry, there are stairs we can take if you'd rather."

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"Yeah, unless we're going up a lot of stories."

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"We'll be going down four." The stairs are around a corner in a sculpture garden.

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She trots down the stairs, Cam following. He trips and tumbles, managing to catch the banister before he crashes into Jim.

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He sits up. He can't nod, but he can wag once, get up, and continue more carefully.

"It's fine," Jim says, "daeva are indestructible."

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"Really? That's so fascinating! Do they do all the dangerous jobs in your world?"

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"Sometimes, sure, but mostly they do magic and some translating."

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"What magic do fairies and angels do?"

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"Fairies move stuff, angels change it. So you see fairies in transit and power generation, angels in disposal and medicine."

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"That sounds really nice. And are only demons dangerous?"

The stairs wind down into a space the size of a stadium, with live trees growing between little glass and wooden vendor stands. There's the impression that a choir is singing from the rafters, but on closer inspection it's just that everyone is singing while they shop and work; the place has extraordinary acoustics.

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"No, the others can be, but they don't try as hard, you know? - do you guys rehearse this? Does this planet run on musical logic?"

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"Oh, we coordinate it through the communications chips in our brains, though people end up knowing lots of songs by heart."

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"Wow. Okay. That wasn't an idea I'd ever heard of for how to use brain chips but it's pretty keen."

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"I really enjoy it! I love music. And the war is so difficult for people emotionally, you know, it's good to have things we all look forward to."

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"Guess that makes sense. Whistling in the dark. It's gorgeous."

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"Thank you, I'll tell them so." They wander past vendors. They're selling normal things like food and cell phones and clothes and jewelry and shoes, for the most part.

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Jim stops to ooh over some of the things. "Oh, uh, you probably don't have, uh, demonproof IP law, do you..."

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"We had no idea we might need it! Some of our allies with a particular interest in that sort of thing are starting to think about it now, but you can copy whatever you'd like in the meantime, enjoy yourself."

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