At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Classy."

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"We've been debating whether we should give more to charity or something but it'd be a full time job just figuring out where it'd do any good."

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"Any good is a low bar. The Make A Wish Foundation does any good."

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"Hot drinks in the car do any good."

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"This is true."

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They're tasty. They pull up to a skyscraper and head inside and take the elevator up to - of course - a stunningly pretty penthouse.

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"Do you have some sort of architecture compulsion as a species."

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"Oh - yes, actually. If things aren't pretty enough we die."

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"It usually doesn't come to that," another person says, walking in. "I don't think I've heard of anyone actually dying of insufficient pretty. Does make us miserable, though. Like grinding loud background noise."

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"How pretty is sufficiently?"

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"Nature's pretty enough. Human cities mostly aren't but unusually pretty human buildings are."

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"What, arbitrary nature? Slugs? Bogs? Corpse flowers?"

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"Well, no, but - if we're away from civilization we are very unlikely to be nagged by the prettiness thing, it really mostly only comes up in human cities."

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"And human suburbs. Ewww. So what's the deal here, are you just along because magic is exciting - did Curvo mention we're the bad guys -"

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"Uh, not in those words. The badly worded oath thing sounds ugly and I'm very glad it didn't turn out you had to try to kidnap me though."

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"Us too. We, uh, weren't expecting the formerly-human thing."

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"...would that have made a difference in your interest in kidnapping me?"

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" - yes? We were assuming the average daeva was thirty thousand years old like we were and would be annoyed but not meaningfully - impacted - by being stuck for a hundred years until we came up with something better. You're in your twenties."

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"Ah. Uh, even the naturally occurring daeva are mostly not that old, you could have gotten somebody who appeared a week ago and was taking a summon because it's easier than learning a first language the long way."

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They both wince. "That's good to know."

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"Also I think the really old daeva take summons less often, there may be an uptick now that they're easier to get but it does kind of require arranging your life so you can drop everything for indeterminate amounts of time on short notice."

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Nod. "I couldn't - what if you got trapped -"

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"Well, I wouldn't die of it. Were you going to keep me in the circle or did I have a wider radius? And would I have found this out before I took my phone calls?"

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"No, we had it set up so you could go a hundred miles any direction, but the castle's in the middle of nowhere. And yes."

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"It'd depend on exact wording - I did not actually read the binding, since everything was perfectly friendly - but if I didn't take my phone calls that might have counted as you failing to pay me and that would've shredded my binding and I could have just flipped you off and gone to see my parents the long way."

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