He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
He's not happy, as he sketches out the signs and sigils. He generally isn't, these days.
He ran out of better options with the last of the cows.
He finishes the circle.
"Not as much as you'd think! For one thing, people are more reluctant to summon demons if they can make do without. We're harder to pay, because you can't pay us in any material objects, and people are often scared of us in ways that make negotiating even harder. It's still done, but not by everybody in their backyard. For another thing, by the early twenty-first century, when daeva became common knowledge, a lot of scarcity was driven by the cost of shipping, and fairies cut that down to almost nothing."
"The name and the being hard to pay. The fact that we're hard to pay plus the fact that summons are voluntary - exacerbated enormously by the fact that it's customary to summon demons without letting us talk for fear we'll convince somebody out of their soul - means that a disproportionate fraction of demons who show up to a random summons are there to have a laugh upsetting some human."
"Not usually! Sometimes they do, but this is the first summon I've been on where I could talk."
"I don't know for sure but I think it's sorted by personality suitability to the magic. And more people are the sort of person who moves stuff around than the sort of person who changes things or makes things."
"We do! Being a fairy has its advantages - I hear floating midair is supremely comfortable - but I'd pick demon every time."