"Oh. Even if I wanted to, I can't make minds."

"Good! Randomly duplicating people without their consent would be massively unethical!"

"Yeah. I can't even do animals - I mean, I can make them, but they're dumber than they should be."

"Dumber like how?"

"Bugs and snails and stuff are about normal - you can notice differences if you give them elaborate tests, but they still basically function. If I make a cat, it'll have a hard time figuring out how to walk or meow."

"Poor cat."

"I don't think it's smart enough to contemplate the awkwardness of its situation. But I tend not to deal in cats etecetera."

"Yeah. Not sure why you'd even want a cat that couldn't walk or meow or whatever."

"They can have normal kittens. There is now a decent population of all the more appealing animals, in Hell."

"Huh. That makes sense, I guess. How worried should I be about the fact that you are apparently a demon from a Hell? Not in terms of your personal evilness, but about the fact that your world has a hell that has demons."

"It's a perfectly nice place to live, if a little tacky. Okay, a lot tacky. And there are only demons there - the 'normal kittens' property does not apply to mindless made humans, for some reason, I think there are similar problems with cetaceans and great apes and elephants, those had to be imported with what must have been considerable awkwardness."

"But there aren't dead humans there either?"

"Everybody in Hell is a demon. There are some mindless human-bodies around but I assume that isn't what you mean. ...Some demons are ex-humans, but most are not."

"I meant are there humans who go to hell when they die. And apparently the answer is 'yes, but then they become the category of person for whom it is not metaphorical hell.'"

"Yeah. The lakes of fire are not and have never been intended to contain people."

"What are they for, then?"

"Garbage disposal. Demons can make anything. We cannot get rid of it. I use a black hole, myself."

"And what happens if you need to get rid of the black hole?"

"I go somewhere which does not have a black hole to pass the time while mine dissolves into Hawking radiation."

"Okay, I don't actually know enough about that particular kind of science to know exactly what that means but I'll take your word for it."

"Relatedly, I do feel I should warn you: while to the best of my knowledge no one has ever turned up dead in my world having previously been alive anywhere other than the Earth I'm familiar with, if this is for some possible reasons as opposed to other possible reasons, you as a summoner, however accidental, may become a daeva yourself when you die."

"Great. If that happens, how does my sister summon me?"

"She draws most of a circle on a floor with room for you to stand in but doesn't finish it, and then around the border writes 'I summon the whatever, insert your full name', where 'whatever' is whichever kind of daeva you are. The options are demon, angel, and fairy. Then, only after writing out all those words, closes the circle. That's for an unbound circle. You are very luck that this unbound circle got me and your sister presumably doesn't wish to magically enforce you behaving yourself. In the strongest possible terms do not ever summon random unbound daeva again."

"The basic idea is the same, but I have no idea in what language this might say 'I summon a demon'. Just avoid closed circular patterns on floors, I guess."