"Ah-huh. - is there any risk a demon will decide to attach to me just because I am here and have superpowers."

"My guess would be no due to how they run in families but I'm not completely certain."

"They run in families now but they picked people to attached to some three hundred years ago, yes? I'm probably borrowing trouble, but."

"I'm not certain why they picked who they did three centuries ago but it was a very small portion of the population. Hopefully that means they are likewise unlikely to pick you."

"Hopefully. I assume it'll be obvious if one does? And... then I have to marry someone and stay in close proximity to them forever?"

"You can leave them for a limited amount of time and eventually, most probably when you would be between fifty and seventy years of age, you would lose your powers and demon."

"Is there a specific inflection point that just normally happens in that age range or is that as mysterious as the rest?"

"Typically it happens during use of empowered abilities and those who use their abilities more often and intensely will have it happen first. Additionally married couples lose their powers at the same time."

"Okay. So something like a resource pool where you run out of magic after you've used enough of it?"

"I've never heard of powers breaking before someone was ... thirty eight, if I'm remembering correctly. Most instances of even constant power use at that age won't have that result."

"Okay. ...what are your powers?"

"I can create fissures in the ground, in addition to the ubiquitous abilities empowered possess: flight, strength, durability, health, celerity, and somewhat enhanced senses. And greater cognitive capabilities supposedly though I am less certain that one is more than boasting on the part of empowered."

The fissures aren't the only aspect of her personal power but she keeps both her lesser and greater capabilities to herself.

"How are those - assigned -"

"Family is the primary influence I know of. Personal abilities sometimes relate to the demon in some manner as well."

"Are demons like... spontaneously generated per person or do they seem to come from somewhere else?"

"I'm not sure I understand the question."

"Does it seem likely that your demon existed before it started haunting you?"

"I don't believe so. Some families claim their demons are inheritable but I suspect them of simply being similar individual demons."

"In what ways do demons seem to vary?"

"Form, torment, amount of haunting necessary to satiate them, the exact factors that determine whether they will haunt someone at a given level of power, and possibly some other ways that aren't coming to mind immediately."

"Whether they will haunt someone at a given level of power?"

"Certain things dissuade demons from haunting at certain levels of satiation - the presence of additional people is the most common but light for instance will also repel many demons if they are kept satiated. Hence it is common to use lighting and the lack thereof to control the schedule of hauntings."

"What's the - progression, if you keep putting off a haunting?"

"Typically light becomes ineffective first, then later small groups of people, and finally the demon manifests fully. They additionally grow in capabilities and form if not satiated - hence wild demons being much more dangerous than is typical."

"Does it disempower the person who's putting off their demon at all, is there any conservation of power involved?"