At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Hardly peers. Unless you summon history-nerd demons."

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"For content-verification reasons, mostly. The history nerd demons will have to earn their degrees like everyone else if they want to be taken seriously."

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"Will you accept credentials from demon institutions?"

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"I imagine so but I personally have no influence whatsoever."

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"Yeah, generic you. The structures of the places aren't much like universities, though."

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"I can imagine. How do they do it?"

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"They don't physically congregate, most of them. There's no schedule, no tuition. Somebody goes 'hey everybody watch this I'm gonna replicate the entire city of Pompeii the moment before its destruction and catalogue everything in it, does anyone wanna come through and take pictures of all the basement dwellers with me so I don't have to do it six times to find them all before they rot' and then everybody on the team doing that gets, like, the equivalent of a boy scout badge, and if you have lots of those people take you more seriously."

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"...that sounds amazing."

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"The first demon I ever summoned was so excited to tell me all about life in Hell and it sounded so - everyone was always doing whatever would make them happy, whatever was interesting, however they liked, and you don't need everybody to individually be a demon to support that, one demon can make a ton of stuff really fast. That was when I was pretty sure that I had to find a way to get everyone the information even if it was really risky and complicated, I wanted everybody to be as happy as demons are."

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She beams at him. "I - yes. Yes. Thank you."

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"You're welcome."

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"That's it, that's exactly it, and people are worrying about how they'll keep immigrants out now or whether Hitler's happy when he shouldn't be or how to re-finagle copyright and I know the details matter, I know the details matter tremendously, but - but that's it, that has to be it, the point has to be that everybody does what what they want, all the time, free of fear, you can't lose sight of that -"

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"I liked that about your letter, that you got that part."

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"I suppose it's possible to dream too big but I think practically everyone's making the opposite mistake, thinking how to get an edge in yesterday's wars when we could just declare that the wars are all over."

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Nod nod.

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"Can I hug you -"

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"Sure." Hug! With wings!

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"Ohgoshwings."

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"Wings are great!"

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"Hell sounds amazing! Thank you for - for noticing the right things about it - and to think people don't let demons talk, it's exactly demons they need to hear..."

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"I think fairies and angels have something similar to a lesser extent - they've always been able to focus on things above and beyond survival - but yeah, demons are the ones I had in mind as a vision of civilization-for-thriving-individuals."

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"Maybe that's why you are one."

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"My guess is actually personality affinity with the magic, based on admittedly scant evidence -" He repeats it for her. "- what do you think you'd be?"

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"Gosh, I don't know. I'd want to be a demon - but so I could know things, if I endeavor to be honest with myself, not so I could build things necessarily -"

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"Yeah, we have a lot of peripheral use cases. There isn't a 'know things' kind of daeva, alas. Fairy seems to be the catchall, lots more ex-human fairies."

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