"And it's probably - as safe as me existing and doing anything - to have occasional unverifiable leakage from ones who do go home.

I do not know how I am going to look anyone we pick up between 1939 and 1944 in the eye given our geographical location but oh well that's really far in the future."

"Destroying the whole universe or whatever you worry would happen wouldn't help them."

"I don't... actually have a way to rule out this being a kind of time travel where I can do stuff."

"Sure, but they get an afterlife, even if the chance you'd destroy everything is pretty small -"

"Yeah. But. It's so bad."

"Until you got here we thought it'd always be that bad, forever."

"No, I mean - on a lot of axes it's worse. They have to learn to do a lot of things to get to where they're going and - and sometimes they just decide to - use them to be evil - and right now people are pretty contained because they can't move around or communicate over long distances without an enormous hassle but the civilian casualties of World War II are forty million."

" - wow."

"Yeah! It's really bad! The path from here to a post-scarcity nigh-utopia is not linear at all. I can't even be like, oh, let's look up some missing person who was never accounted for, and speed them up and spirit them away... because anyone recorded as a missing person could have been looked up by some demon... I'm not sure of the logic on that, it might work, maybe I'll have it figured out by World War II."

"Could you leave a note for the demon that's like "don't publish, time paradox"?"

"I don't think I can leave any notes. I have conjured my own complete works before, several times, when changing formats, and didn't find any weird shit."

"Huh. 

Well, some of them will probably come to us anyway. If they remember what faery circles mean."

"Maybe.

I don't think I make it a million years without writing at all, but doing it small and fast has gotta cover me. If it didn't I'd already be in trouble."

Nod. 

"Are you unusual for your people?"

"In what respect?"

"So I'm mostly wondering what share of them, if summoned here, would've done something that made it impossible for them to have been summoned here."

"- oh. Uh, possibly a lot of them, a million years is a very long time. Though the general concept of time travel and its hazards is more available."

Nod.

"But it could also just be an interaction with summoning circles and faery circles."

"That also makes sense. I guess we should not test this ourselves?"

"It might ever make sense to summon more daeva but I think it should be done slowed down just to reduce the variables in play."

Nodnod. "It seems very risky anyway given that they likely don't have to cooperate with our system at all."

"They don't, but I know how to design bindings better than the one I'm in, I used to teach it."

"That'd probably help. And they'd want to stay?"

"That I have no idea about, but they might, especially if we find a baby nobody'll miss, daeva can't have kids and sometimes want them."