"He'll want to know them all eventually, but his attention span's short."

"One thing I do worry about is that the last hundred and fifty years of media will be hard to censor such that it doesn't include enough information to summon a daeva. He'd still have to talk the daeva into whatever, but..."

He nods. "It's going to be hard to keep him entirely away from that information. Are there - just highly focused anatomy textbooks?"

"Probably, but getting them in high volume at high confidence will take longer."

He nods. "Probably just one's enough to - prove we're serious and that we have what we say we have. And then we tell him he needs to release prisoners to get any more than that one, buying us time to sort?"

"Yeah, I can do that, especially if I turn out to have a decently high clone tolerance."

"We'll want a lot of stipulations about how he can go about stopping having prisoners first, too, and - any reasonable transfer of power or to a less fucked system will take him time."

"He'd normally be inclined to, what, summarily execute them?"

"Probably to delay, mostly. He'd only kill them if he thought it'd be funny, which would mostly be if he thought it would bother me."

"Charming!"

"He is definitely someone who should never be given the opportunity to be a daeva."

"Oh, I don't know, you can summon daeva under bindings."

"Point. And if he wanted to fork himself through creative applications of resurrection he could've already."

"Are you sure he hasn't?"

"Some of his backup resurrection plans involve inert forks. He's expressed a dislike of having them active, though."

"Huh! I'm liking being able to fork and merge but there's no accounting for taste."

He shrugs; he doesn't mind the clones in tactical uses, but he doesn't actually like interacting with himself either.

"Am I going to be wanted as a supplement to chakra-based healing? I don't know how many missing limbs we're looking at or if Karin could technically handle that if she felt like it."

"Chakra healing theoretically can handle that but Karin's not that good. Probably supplement to healing would help, even just medical supplies on demand."

"You got it. Are there competent therapists anywhere for these prisoners or is that a hilarious question."

"I'm not sure what therapy entails or where to find a therapist."

"Gotcha." Sigh.

"Do you have an opinion on if we should force him out of power entirely?" Assuming they don't end up killing him.

"I mean, he doesn't seem to be up to any good with it, I'd be balancing the risk of retaliation versus the greater damage he could bring to bear if more powerful, pretty much."

"There might be destabilization. Usually transfers of power involve the last person being dead, and he's more likely to have loyalists if he's alive."