"Some people consider goblins and dark elves and so on to be monsters to fight at home and those are people," remarks Bella.

"Yeah, but - I'm mostly just annoyed because perytons are listed as 'always evil' and that really bugs me."

"You do not seem evil."

"I'm really not."

"And I'm glad, because if you were evil you might attempt to hurt me and then I'd have to knock you out and leave and you'd have a horrible headache after and I wouldn't get to hang out in the cool interplanar bar."

"Yeah, that would be terrible. I don't even get why doing evil things seems like an intelligent course of action. I mean, something like - embezzling, that I can get. I don't support it, but I understand the why. But just randomly being evil? Don't understand it at all."

"I suspect most evil people have something else going on, even if it's just that they're a demon and need to eat human livers to survive or something."

"I guess. But - not being evil is more viable in the long run."

"Not if you need human livers to survive it's not."

"If I needed to eat human livers to survive I would go politely inform a government of my liver-eating status, and eat the livers of inmates on death row or hit up spare livers from organ donors or something. And then I would encourage organ donors to be more common so that I could one, get more potential livers, and two, convince people do donate organs because it saves lives."

"Organ donors?"

"Oh - um. We can take organs out of one person shortly after they die and put them into someone else whose appropriate organ is failing them. And then they get to keep living, because they don't have a faulty organ anymore."

"Science world," mutters Bella. "Anyway, if a demon tried to go to the government to ask nicely for livers they would be stabbed to death by paladins immediately."

"Okay, then I start raiding morgues for livers, no one has to die."

"That one might work, I don't know how morgues are run. I think demons might need them fresher than that?"

"Then I take up being an EMT, wait for cases where someone is guaranteed to die, where there's no way anyone can save them, and then I eat their liver. In secret, I'm not sure I could pull that one off, though."

"What's an EMT?"

"Emergency medical technician. Basically, emergency healer, but with science instead of magic."

"Oh, makes sense. I guess that would work, although if it were me I'd feel bad about profiting from all that death and then not scraping up the cash to get the people resurrected."

"I can't. That's divine magic. And it's very expensive, and it involves dealing directly with gods and has to be undertaken kind of delicately."

"We can't resurrect anyone," says Darren, wide-eyed. "When they're dead, that's it. They're - gone."

"Are you sure? I mean - you know you can't do everything right now that your magic could do. Medallions."

"I - well, it might be possible, but - as far as I know, no one has ever managed it."