"Sure, we can arrange that."

"I'm going to want my summoner to say some stuff so I'll be able to walk and make a wider variety of things. And I'm curious if there are other details to be had."

"Uh, they're insisting they didn't particularly care if we ended up dead or crippled or anything and mostly just hoped the thing would somehow get far enough away to not be their problem, but they did pick us in particular because of thinking of all the people around it'd be most convenient if we did end up dead or crippled, so no one's very impressed. They were confused at the idea they'd abused the human, they really don't think they did."

"I don't think they fell beneath the typical faery standard of care. I just think the typical faery standard of care is really bad."

Nod. "That'd explain it. 

The ones we're bringing back here are the people in charge, your summoner - who wasn't in charge, he was a disposable idiot which is why he got permission to do a unlikely experiment - and a couple who seemed useful."

"I did think he seemed pretty idiotic... useful how? What's happening to the ones that aren't getting brought?"

"Useful mostly for their skill with magic, or knowledge of some skillset we don't have here - underground excavation, lens grinding, tree health. Everyone else is going to stay at their camp supervised with restricted privileges until we pick someone we want to have in charge, then we'll leave."

"Someone of theirs or of yours?"

"Someone of theirs."

"Cool. Do the useful people stay here indefinitely, or do they get to go home if they want at some point?"

"They'll be allowed to leave if they want at some point but it might be a while."

"A while like..."

"Some winters, potentially."

"Do they have visitation privileges?"

"Do you mean, can people visit them, or are they allowed to go home?"

"Either one."

"People can visit them. They'd negotiate trips with their handlers here, I don't know any details."

"Okay. I guess that's not an emergency and I have a few thousand years to address it if I decide to. Thanks for catching me up."

"Of course."

"Is this a good time for me to talk to my summoner about what I need from him?"

"If you'd like, yeah."

"Cool, can you take me to him?"

"Of course." It's down in the dungeons.

"Hi," Cam says to his summoner. "Thanks for arranging to forget my name."

He looks like he has absolutely no idea what to make of that. He nods.