Cam makes the front cover of Summonings and Bindings. "I can make this. I'd make the whole thing but it covers gagging and uses language we want to eradicate and so on. I don't see how we could figure out for sure if it's not from your world, though."

Cam makes a new copy of the front cover. "I do not seem to be able to aim by world, at least not in cases where only one world has the thing at all."

"Figures. And that was when you had been to both wolds. Oh well, it's not like I'd ever be in a position where I need to know whether my world has summoning without also having the ability to test it."

"Yep. I might be able to go home - and if I can, I'm going to want to do this periodically to send some letters - but you I cannot help."

"There's years before I want to be home. We might or might not find it expedient to see if I can go home before then, because if I can't that puts some constraints on the wisdom of summoning any additional daeva -" Cam takes the map. "Okay. How does blue circles where I want holes dug for columns, yellow lines below where I need any encroaching tall trees cleared for the raised tracks but short things can stay, and red rectangles around the stations that need to be clear but not dug out at ground level, sound?"

"...This is after some inflation? Anyway, this map isn't quite detailed enough for me to do the whole thing from here, I think; is there any reason I shouldn't go out flying under my own power, really high up? ...And why are they going to carry a lot of money?"

"Clouds to go up and down, can do. The aerial view is faster than walking and lets me look at where I'm painting. I could do something exciting like leave combination-locked boxes of money at intervals along the route, if that would be safer for your workers."

"That is a brilliant idea. But boxes of enough money would probably mess with inflation more than using already extant money. And ordinary bandits will know to back down if they hear a gunshot; it's a torches-and-pitchforks mob that might not."

"I can carry a few dollars on my flight, descend in columns of cloud to box them. Up to you if it's worth it. There might also be some things I could outfit people with that are less lethal and/or scarier than guns. Tasers aren't fun but they're usually nonlethal, for instance. Flashbang's probably more alarming and even less injurious."

"Let's go with alarming. It shouldn't be necessary, but always better to be safe. Do you mind if I take credit for it? If a flashbang isn't the world's worst misnomer, it could probably make a mob stand down with my name attached."

"It makes a loud noise and a bright light. It's disorienting but shouldn't blind or deafen anyone permanently. Here is a flashbang to try somewhere - not in anybody's face, please, and read the instructions, they can start fires - and an instruction manual. Feel free to claim to have invented it."

Cam makes a dozen flashbangs. And sets of instructions to go with each. "Make sure everybody reads the instructions. These aren't going to throw shrapnel or anything, but they aren't toys."

"These people were expecting to be manning a Gatling gun about now, and I trained their teachers myself. They can be trusted with weapons, but I'll make sure to tell them."

"I may harbor some background suspicion that through no fault of my own eventually something I make will cause a problem and you will be tempted to fall back on your culturally supplied racism against - makers. But sure."

"I'm pretty satisfied by now that makers are not demons in any relevant sense, and equipment failure wouldn't change that. Even if I ended up thinking you did it on purpose, it's quite a jump from there to 'malevolent being of pure evil.'"

"Aw, thank you."

"Since you're also probably the best thing to happen to history here ever—with me being the possible exception depending on how your monarchy plan plays out—it would be something of a national embarrassment if you were a malevolent being of pure evil."

Cam laughs. "You can take credit for my presence, considering."

"Considering that it was entirely accidental? Yes, I suppose I will."

Cam chuckles. "Anyway, am I boxing money as I go or not, and is there anything else to clarify before I go put paint down?"