"What did your parents do?"

"Nothing that exceptional for the circumstances! They sent me to the same kind of school nearly every kid - boys and girls both - went to. They made about as much money as most people in the same time and place. In some ways they were underperforming - they got a divorce when I was a baby!"

"That really doesn't make any sense."

"A lot of what you're taking for granted here, I think, is... basically just poverty and less... accumulated social wisdom."

"When God came to Earth he did all kinds of nice things for people even the ones who didn't matter and he fed everyone and the Devil couldn't tempt him and that's how they knew he was God come to Earth, because people aren't like that."

"This is actually not a comparison I've had made about me before. I'm in fact not Jesus if, uh, you were wondering."

"I figured you would probably have mentioned. Probably."

"Well, I doubt the faeries would have found it very relevant?"

"I guess there would not be much point in telling them. You could tell me so I could - 

- wash your feet, I suppose. I don't really know what else we're supposed to do when He comes back. I didn't actually get a lot of religious education or probably I would've sinned less."

"My feet are fine. And I'm still not Jesus.

There are people who are still - selfish or cruel or just don't care or whatever - where I'm from too. But - fewer, because - managing to survive and take care of basics is made so much easier, when the world around you is richer."

"Maybe Jesus was from where you're from, too."

"I don't think so."

She looks relieved for some reason. "Okay."

"Mind, I don't know how I got here."

"I thought the faeries summoned you?"

"They did. That's not the weird part. I can usually be summoned. Apparently people around here who know how to do it can usually summon. But usually I'd get summoned somewhere else - I don't mean 'not to faery'. I mean 'to the year of our lord 2179'."

" - wow. 

Do you think being sped up messed it up somehow?"

"I don't think so. I wasn't sped up before I got summoned here."

"Huh.

Do all humans who die become apsels, in 2179?"

"No. Just some of the ones who are summoners. Other summoners become one of the other two magic things."

"Huh."

"Non-summoner humans still become indestructible but can't be summoned and don't get powers."

"All of them?"

"Yes."

"When does...that start happening."