"It's kind of niche. I can make stuff you can play, though, 'specially if you don't have electricity."

Amina turns up. "- who's this? Are people appearing through the dome again, do we have to go back to the winter palace -"

"No! But this is Amriac, and I think you should meet her."

"- what is that?" asks Amina.

"Sphereflute. You can't play it. I don't mean you can't borrow it, here, take it," she hands it over, "just you actually can't, needs magic."

"Boo. This isn't why you called me over, is it, to hold a flute I can't play -"

"I can make other things, that's just the magnum opus."

"She talks just like you. And spends her time inventing weird magical instruments. I think you're - the same thing as the pharaoh and all the pharaoh-alternates."

"Huh," they say at the same time, and then Amriac says, "Teach me to read local sheet music."

He looks a little taken-aback to be addressed in this fashion.

Amina decides she was probably talking to her. "Okay, uh, do you want to come back to my room, I can ask Hadjara not to let the kids in for a bit -"

"You have kids?"

"...yes, that'll happen if you -"

"I mean I know how humans have kids, I've just never seen one in person."

"You've never seen a kid?"

"No! Except on TV. They're hard to come by in Hell!"

"...don't call it Hell."

"Whatever, lemme meet your kids. Do they talk?"

"The older one does."

"Have fun."

" - can I?"

" - well, she's not a girl, she's a daeva, I don't care."

He will follow the two of them off.

"What's he on about, 'not a girl' -"

"Uh, it's the not having kids thing. If you can't have kids anyway you can do whatever you want, right, there are more rules if you can."

"...I'm not a vocalist so the amount of human culture I've picked up by stealing their music is pretty limited."

"Since you can't get pregnant you don't need a whole setup where you make sure your kids will be fed before you have real sex," Amina says.

"Fed? If I wound up with a kid through some kind of shenanigan that'd be the least of my worries, I'd let somebody who's into that kind of thing have it -"

"...okay... well... you can't so it doesn't matter."

"It doesn't mean I'm not a girl. Apart from the wings I'm perfectly humanesque."

"I don't think he meant to express any opinions about how you're shaped."

"People who summon daeva sometimes call 'em 'it', don't think we're quite people -"

"If it is important to you to be treated like a human woman we can do that, means I can't be alone with you and so on but I'm sure we can get people to hang around and supervise playing with the instruments."

"...I'm not a human woman, I'm a demon woman."

"Don't say 'demon'."

"...I'm a daeva woman, whatever."

"And you do not want to be treated like a human woman?"

"If that means something stupid to do with how pregnant I can't get?"

"It kind of does."

"I don't want to be treated stupidly or like some kind of genderless object. I know a de- a daeva who went through a period of asserting that his gender was the key of D major but this is no longer fashionable and was never popular, we have the same genders as everyone else. And furthermore I can't have kids and wouldn't want to."

"Okay."

In Amina's room she is delighted to learn to read Golarion's sheet music conventions and when she has an overview of that she puts on a Macalaurë composition for comparison.

"How're you doing that -"