At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Oh. Sorry, I have no idea."

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"How long have you been a demon -"

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"Couple years. Got hit by a car."

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"Had you interacted with any demons before that -"

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"Nah, that always seemed more dangerous than it was worth, just fairies - I started this fairy shuttle company, my sister's running it now, would it be okay with you if I called her -"

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"Yeah, of course." He hands her his cell phone.

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Dial dial.

"Fairy Ring transit, how can I help you?"

"Nora, it's me -"

"- what -"

The demon and her sister catch up.

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"Another one?" he asks Cam.

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Cam picks up another birth certificate. "- I recognize this name. Could be a coincidence." Circle.

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Finished circle.

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"...Cam?"

"...yep. Hi, Todd."

"You, uh, died."

"Apparently so did you."

"Oh."

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"We're trying to figure out why some people apparently become daeva when they die."

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"I dunno, everybody I landed near said it happens if you sell your soul and I didn't."

"Me either," says Cam.

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" - and it can't be that there's a non-selling way of losing your soul because the other girl didn't even summon demons - I take it Todd also died in the last couple of years?"

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"Last month," says Todd.

"Phone's in use but you can have it when she's done."

"Oh is there a line?" asks the other demon. "It's okay, Nora can resummon me -" She offers the phone.

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Todd can have a phone too. "Can you check if maybe the 'fifty' estimate was correct when you were given it - all of them having been born recently could be a question of birth certificates and population growth but that doesn't explain all of them having died recently as well -"

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Cam checks. He gets seventy-one birth certificates.

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"- so it's accelerating -"

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"Getting some more timeslices -"

There is a jump when birth certificates get popular. There's a much bigger jump post-Revelation.

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" - summoners who die young enough? That'd be an awkward dilemma -"

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Cam flips through the certificates and looks at dates. "No, some of the people post-jump were older."

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"Are they all summoners -"

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Flip flip flip - "Ex-student - ex-student - that guy who got killed summoning a badly bound fairy - this one was in the news - everybody I've heard of was yes -"

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"And that's the best explanation of the increase post-Revelation, that it's some subset of summoners - that could even produce the rumor it's people who've sold their soul, since presumably all of those would be summoners -"

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"Yeah, they all would." ...He gets stacks for angels and fairies. They exhibit similar patterns, though fairies jump more.

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