"Just those, but two days ago I thought it was totally impossible for anything to affect."

"My intuition is to do with none of us traveling spatially through the beetle shell but I guess local teleportation and plane shifts also don't and now that I think about it I'm not sure if I expect the shell to extend underground."

"It does! And the effect works on divinations as well as on teleportation and plane shifts and so on."

"But only in one direction, in that case."

"We figured out a workaround for scrying out, in my grandfather's day."

"What is it?"

"Paired crystal balls, one in and one dug into a crack in the shell, set up to behave identically."

"Pricey."

"Summoning could interact with your afterlife setup. I don't know whether to expect that or not, maybe it would only kick in if somebody got eaten by the Abyss or won't interfere at all, but where I'm from if you're a summoner you become a daeva when you die."

"Got any trustworthy folks who ping evil?"

"One or two but they're working on it, they shouldn't by the time they die."

"Got any trustworthy folks who don't like where they're set up to go - like, it'd split them up from people anyway, say - and aren't working on that very fast?"

" - could talk Hagan around, probably."

"I could also try it, but if I die of old age or under circumstances where no one will resurrect me, Nirvana might actually be a good vantage point and I might be able to nudge over from chaos in the relevant time frame. ...Rubelite'd do it. Can daeva have kids?"

"Not in the sense Pelape'd require."

"Might fuck with something of Annie's, Mirelótë's sorted, Cor's got powers to mess with, I think Promise would have mentioned if her lifespan was such that we shouldn't expect her to be around long while she's fast and we're not, so Rubelite's it."

"Should I send for her?"

"Yeah, dunno if I have the Message range."

A servant heads off to do this.

Cam gets a response from Amriac. "That's a lot of exclamation marks. She says that she demands Masaharta 'and all his weird string instruments, what even are those' be served to her on a silver platter. I think she's joking but if this is the sort of joke one shouldn't make around princes I can find someone else."

"I think he'll like her. If she's rude to him in public the guards might shove her around, I don't know how offended to expect her to be."

"Uh, her general amiability is probably correlated with how much petty return fire she can issue, how tight do you want me to design this binding on subjects like 'can she put glitter in their hair'?"

Sigh. "That seems fine."

"She'll be delighted." He fiddles with a paragraph of legalese on his computer till he has it how he likes it. "I can't actually design a binding to prevent her from doing anything as specific as hitting on Masaharta if I let her talk at all, but should I advise her against? I don't know how your rules apply to guaranteed infertile centuries-old daeva."

"I think it is fine for anyone who wants to to have sex with infertile centuries-old daeva. At least for any men who want to."