I have a crush on demon cam not the kind where you kiss them the kind where you torture them
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Inside, Jim jumps, sets down her laptop, and gets up to answer the door. "Hi?"

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"Hey! I have your demon back, we got some good information off the scans. Thank you."

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"Oh, you're welcome," she blinks. "What'd you find out?"

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"It doesn't look like there's any reason in principle why we couldn't adapt our chips to do that, and it'd be a dangerous brain surgery to get the one he has, so we will probably work on getting ours to offer the same functionality. It might be a while, but we can work with lightscreens in the meantime."

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"Not just lightscreens, the thing where the hardware doesn't store stuff unscrambled in a sensible order," she says. "Otherwise they can just get your computer and see what comes up on the lightscreen."

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"Thank you. I think that's doable, but we'll see. I have more questions from the team trying to figure out your disappearance, but if it'd be better to wait that's fine, I know there's been a lot today already..."

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"I really didn't see anything, but I can answer questions..."

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"They wanted to know what exactly what happening, and who was around, when you vanished."

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"We were on a boat. There were the boat crew and the lady from the electric company and the ocean surveyor there but not standing right by us. We were going out to the site for a new tidecatcher. And then - I don't think I even blinked - I was where those orcs were. There wasn't a noise or a light show or anything, I was just there and so was the demon."

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"Who was standing closest to you? Were there objects in the vicinity that you might expect would have come with you if the event moved, say, a certain volume of space rather than a certain number of persons?"

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"Apart from the demon I think one of the crew was closest by. Not the captain but I don't know the other jobs. I wasn't holding anything but my clothes and my shoes came and not a chunk of the deck or anything..."

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"Do you mind if I attempt to sketch this..."

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"Oh, no, go ahead."

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He sketches. "Did you have a clear view of the demon, could he have been interacting with something or fiddling with something - and would his range of vision have been the same as yours -"

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"I wasn't looking at it, I was looking at the water, but it hadn't been holding anything either. I guess I don't know if it has telescopic contacts but it hasn't got eyes in the back of its head."

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He bites his lip. "Is there any way to get a snapshot - I don't suppose he can make "what we would have seen if we'd taken a picture at that moment", since the picture doesn't exist..."

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"Yeah, they can't do that. They can make scale models but I hate the tiny people, they flop over so horribly -"

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"Ewwww. Can he do a model that's made out of glass or silver or something pretty?"

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"Maybe? I'm not sure -" She looks at Cam. Cam wobbles a hand.

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"All right, different angle, what about the state of your world's investigation into your disappearance? Satellite photos of the site now, or photos with news articles about the event, if there were any ... eventually we'll want the articles too, but right now the team wouldn't even be able to read them..."

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"Ooh, yes, there might be satellite photos," agrees Jim, "since we were out on the water, and there might be news." She works this out with Cam and acquires photos and news articles.

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"Thanks so much! I'll pass these along. Anything else I can do for you?"

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"Is it cool if I have the demon add substantial things to the room - like, a minifridge, so I don't need to keep it in shouting distance if I want a lemonade, or whatever -"

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"Yes, absolutely, whatever's more comfortable for you."

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"Cool - oh, uh, you're not going to have the right kind of outlets, do you have your own designs of mini-fridge it can copy -"

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