"What I can do is write some letters to some other demons and see if any of them are up for the risk."

"Oh! Cool! I thought it was going to wait until you had done everything really important and we had tried sending you home and bringing you back." 

"If nobody volunteers, that's the way to do it, but ideally someone will want to come. I can start poking around. Other demons conjure mail like I do."

"Maybe someone will want to talk to the fish people." 

"I'm curious about the fish people myself, they're certainly a potential selling point."

"I hope they're okay. It's been a long time since the Necronomicon was written." 

"I could check, but I got pretty lucky with the Linaika speaking an intelligible dialect of something my computer knows how to translate and I don't know that I can expect this with fish people."

"Can you check if they've gone extinct or not?" 

"Yeah -" He starts making plasticized minis of alive fishpeople but he will stop when he has a couple.

He gets a couple. 

"There are some!"

"Oh good! I was worried humanity would have wiped them out. They...do that."

"Is somebody else extinct?"

"Just, like, birds and neanderthals and stuff." 

"Ah, those. I dunno, the gorilla people looked a little Neanderthal-y. If there is a good time to reintroduce dodos I can do that, they hatch from eggs."

"Whoah oh my goodness you can do that can't you." 

"Yeah! It's harder but not impossible with mammals, but eggs I can make them in an early enough stage that they develop proper minds."

"How do you do it with mammals?"

"The braindead ones are still biologically alive, and with enough medical care you can get them to carry to term at a decent success rate."

"...Does that work with people?"

"No, the success rate drops off with how smart the creature is normally because the differential between that and bug-smart gets too big. I guess it's possible if you tried it in a million humans one would take but it takes nearly that many to get a chimp."

"I hope not. That sounds...disturbing." 

"No one's managed it in Hell, somebody would have noticed."

"I don't know if I should be glad or not. On the one hand, I'm disturbing. On the other hand, I'm not braindead and pregnant." 

"Oh, that's not the part I'd worry about, the part I'd worry about would be how vulnerable the non-braindead baby would be in Hell."