- hug?

...Yeah, okay, hug.

"- are you also not gonna be able to walk for the next million years, that sounds really frustrating."

"I will be able to walk - and for that matter fly - if we get ahold of my summoner and have them assign me a task."

"Oh, okay. I think my brother's on that."

"That's my understanding. It'd get really old to be not only in a wheelchair but unable to personally wheel it for a million years."

"Are you - actually confident you'll live that long? Most people don't."

"I'm indestructible."

"Wow. That's convenient."

"Yes, I like it. I don't actually know if it applies to faery misfortune, though."

"As long as you're not entangled with anyone you're in control of your own destiny there."

"Yes. A million years is gonna be such a long time to go without sarcasm though."

"Maybe you can be sarcastic at your human, at least when you're sure you're not entangled with anyone. Or maybe that'd just reinforce the habit."

"Probably. Ugh. Is there a safe-ish small scale test of whether I am in fact immune to faery misfortune so I don't have to just hope it never comes up in a million years."

"If you're not entangled with any other faeries then we could get to even and do some pretty safe tests. I'm worried you might be entangled with your summoner, agreements not yet fulfilled do that and a summons might be similar. Or if anyone learned a name you use a lot, or made promises to you though that's less likely."

"Well, we'll hold off till we've got my summoner and somebody can check, then, though wouldn't it have been strange for them to get rid of me if we were entangled?"

"Would've been pretty stupid but the whole thing seemed pretty stupid. I'm really curious what explanation my brother will extract."

"Me too. We have a guess of when they'll be accounted for?"

"We sent people out to negotiate with their neighbors. Once they get back we'll be ready to head over."

Nod. Sigh.

"It won't be violent, if that helps at all."

"It helps at all."

Sigh.

"We could use humans as a value sink. As long as they don't want to go home. I can buy them out, they can listen to music or whatever in parallel and then I can pay for it."

" - yeah, that should work. People will compete to get them to run up as much of a tab as possible but that mostly won't look like any awful things, as long as the humans could always just decide to go home. Or to another court."