At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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Cam still tracks daeva incidents. Including unexpected positive externalities - demonic mosquitoes eradicate malaria! - but mostly mistakes. Fairy didn't bring enough air into space. Angel made a medical error. Somebody didn't pay their demon in advance and couldn't change their mind about paying with sex and wrote a sad blog post. And some malicious events - fairy maroons summoner on a tiny rocky island in the middle of nowhere. Angel starts a cosmetic procedure, stops halfway through, cannot be compelled to continue. Inadequately bound demon doesn't care that there was never an agreement to sex in the first place.

Fairy tortures her summoner for kicks and the summoner screams at the SWAT team not to shoot her, please, she's four months pregnant -

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CNN interrupts the news to have four camera angles on that story, live!!! FAIRY HOSTAGE SITUATION - ANN ARBOR - BREAKING NEWS -

 

Elves watch.

 

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So does Cam.

"- if she were any farther along another fairy could do a C-section," he mutters.

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"That doesn't kill them both?"

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"Fetus isn't going to be viable even with a good angel at four months. If she were at seven months the baby might be fine - she might rather be shot at that point -"

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"Was this this fairy's first opening -"

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Checking - "- There's a subtler hole in this one but she might've missed it."

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Nod.

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"Why -"

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"Just curious - whether it was opportunistic or personal or -"

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"Fuck, I don't know."

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CNN is undeterred from their breathless coverage by the fact all you can really see is a suburban house with police tape and sirens. They eventually get a demon to do live models of the situation for them, and cut to that. 

 

Everyone winces. "Baby might not make it anyway."

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"- a good angel could still salvage it but it'd have to be a really good angel."

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"Could ask if an angel can go in and heal her, fairy might not object -"

      "Humans don't have a good way to communicate in hostage situations," Matt says.

"Right."

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"Did this use to come up a lot?" Cam wonders vaguely.

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" I mean - yes, but specifically to fuck with us, that makes it different. Can't negotiate under those conditions."

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"- can't really justify having an Elf anywhere near an evil fairy, you can't just be summoned back if something happens -"

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"Turn off the television, Tyelcormo."

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He does. 

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It helps a little.

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Twelve hours into the nonstop coverage the woman dies. She's an angel.

 

The baby's gone.

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"Least she's not a fairy, that'd be - awkward."

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