At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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And the other people have written back and can also fairy places (if you don't mind if the fairy hangs around, Sheila says. Not because you're a demon, for the record.)

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They get a different array of times. I don't mind being chaperoned by a fairy. Is it somebody you know?

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I really wanted to go walk on the Moon so I saved up to take someone on an expensive shopping trip and then to the Moon and then I got Ziria, who also wanted to go to the Moon, it was great.

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Convenient! Ziria is welcome to join us. Was the Moon everything you'd hoped?

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It was awesome. Ziria did not find the gravity half as fascinating as I did. Have you been?

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Nah, I didn't know I'd be a daeva when I died and didn't want to chance leaving Earth's atmosphere. I got one to take me to Salar de Uyuni once though.

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Is it as pretty in person? Anyway, Friday works.

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It's better! See you then.

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Soon he has three dates scheduled. The Elves find this amusing. 

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It's not that weird, is it?

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It's eminently reasonable! 

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"And super cute. Elves mostly wouldn't but look how many happy marriages our way produces." He gestures vaguely in the direction of his family. "Have fun."

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"Elves don't... go on dates?"

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"No, we're just very one-at-a-time about it. Or were, who knows, maybe in the last thirty thousand years Valinor had the sexual revolution, at least the bits of it that are compatible with the species."

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"I haven't run across that spying on their writing, but maybe. I'll narrow them down soon as I have anything more to go on."

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"Have fun."

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And Cam is at the gazebo for the first date.

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Sheila and fairy arrive. "Hi!" she says. "Gosh. I assume you go around shirtless because of the wings but it's hard not to imagine you finding books in abandoned houses, shirtless, drawing secret circles, shirtless, redacting the book, shirtless..."

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"Hi to the both of you too! I typically wore shirts then but far be it from me to constrain anyone's imagination. I've just never found a way to combine shirts and wings that I like."

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"How do fairies do it? This is really pretty - why rural Canada -"

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"I've been hanging out near here. I can't personally summon fairies anymore, and I'd rather have less personal or more urgent reasons to get somebody else to do it for me. Anything backless that fastens behind the neck works - buttons or Velcro or snaps or just tying it on - I just can't get used to it and lack the anatomy that makes shirtlessness unacceptable in my culture."

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"How'd you pick the wings?"

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"Out of a catalog. There are catalogs, it's really cute. You hungry?"

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"Sure. Allergic to cashews."

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"What d'you like?"

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