At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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In that case he can play bird-translator all day or until someone notices there are trespassers.

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The place is not actually guarded. As startup tourist attractions go this one was cheap.

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Then he can translate for birds and squirrels and so on all day.

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And Cam can feed the fairies.

After they've been there a while one of the demons vanishes.

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That's promising.

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It is! An angel next, and then another demon, and then they're all gone.

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He gives Cam a high-five. "Look how few felonies were involved!"

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"Yay!"

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"Law against it's still a good idea. Or, like, some checks on summoning someone and keeping them gagged in your house for fun, if current laws don't cover that - and gagged daeva can't testify to anything having happened -"

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"Yeah."

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"I'll bug Matthew."

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"Thanks. I'd really like to have done unalloyed good and unalloyed anything is hard turns out."

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"Unalloyed evil's pretty straightforward!"

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"Moreso, at any rate."

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"I really seriously think Melkor straight-up managed it." 

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"I have no contradictory evidence."

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The U.S. government is on the brink of announcing a new department for handling of daeva concerns. If it has a demon on staff, and he's working on that, daeva can write with concern for friends who've been gone a while on a summons and they can follow up from there. Also zoo summons should and will be illegal. Does Cam have concerns or suggestions in that vein -

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"I'm inconveniently an introvert, I know demons who are nice but I'm not sure I know ones who are qualified. Letting people write in about missing friends is a great idea though."

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"Oh, I'll wrangle doing interviews, it'll be so much fun." He sounds not precisely sincere. "I mean if there are other sorts of problem we might miss -"

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"I covered all the safety concerns I know about in the edits to the book, where they weren't there when I found it. In terms of being pleasant to daeva - gags and zoos and zoo-type problems, I guess. Also I know someone who was summoned by somebody who insisted on calling her 'it', she was annoyed, but that's probably not a matter for the legal system."

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"For the legal system no, for me possibly. We want daeva to want to take summons, seems like that makes for a much better-selected pool of them."

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Nod. "Uh, the sort of classic thing one pays demons in should one be disinclined to offer souls or sexual favors is media recommendations, but commissions and live performances stack up better versus what you can get in Hell - demon curators are fine at organizing stuff you might want to read, they are not themselves the Original Broadway Cast. If you normalize conjuration based communication enough then daeva could line that sort of thing up in advance instead of hoping someone suggests it, or lets them talk and happens to have access to theater tickets."

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"That sounds useful. How many daeva speak an Earth language?"

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"More all the time - that's another thing you could do with advance setup, pay people in languages, requires more trust than the standard task deal but probably anyone really keen on languages will want more than one summoner's worth if they can get it so they'll have some incentive."

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"And do we have any more information on the thing that happened to you and how to replicate it, do you need to die violently before age 25 while having recently summoned a demon or something..."

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