At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"It's too bad there aren't thousands of planets of aliens, you could go around being Revelation at all of them."

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"It'd probably get old."

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"Would it? Different societies, differently-shaped problems - I guess thousands might get old -"

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"Well, also I wouldn't have any special advantage at doing rollout correctly in a completely unfamiliar society. I'm not even very good at learning languages the long way."

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"Someone from outside has to tell them, though."

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"Yeah. I think I'd rather do that by finding one person and telling them and getting lots of guidance from there, though."

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"How would you pick 'em?"

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"Don't know, but it's a smaller problem than figuring out how to tell everybody at once."

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"How long did it take you to decide -"

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"Two years. From when I found the book."

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"Was most of that learning things or deciding what to do with what you knew -"

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"I did them in parallel. One of them was better suited than the other to doing covertly in math class though."

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"I forgot you were in high school. My god."

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"My grades that year were terrible! My teachers thought I had a psychiatric problem!"

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"I don't suppose telling them 'no, I was just summoning demons instead of doing my homework' would have reassured them in the slightest!"

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"Not even a little. I told them I didn't want to talk about it and one of them called my dad and he told me there would be no hard feelings if I moved back in with my mom, it was so awkward."

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"Did they know, afterwards -"

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"That I was Revelation, no, that I had been summoning demons yes. I went and taught summoning at U Dub."

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"Yeah, there was a biography of you in the New York Times and it had lecture notes and so on."

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"Huh, they didn't call my folks about it that they mentioned."

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"I think the article said they couldn't get through, but don't hold me to that."

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"Possible they couldn't. My mom's a kindergarten teacher, the school had to hire security. I feel kinda bad about that. At least they haven't fired her."

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"They won't, that'd be a PR nightmare. I'm sure that's not the most reassuring reason, but -"

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"Neither she nor I would make a huge fuss about it but she loves her kindergarteners."

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"And is appropriately careful to keep them away from chalk, I bet! There was a scary story out of Poland a couple weeks ago -"

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