Raafi in Revelation
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It's wallpapered with big glossy color photographs of Limbo concordances through the ages, with a sharp discontinuity around the invention of the train from "demons handing limboites stuff" to "trains trains trains trains". "Oh hey!" says a demon with purple hair. "It's you! It is you, right?"

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"Last time I checked, yep! Your friendly local teleporter."

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"That's super rad! Lemme round up the folks. HEY FOLKS ALL ABOARD WHO'S GOING ABOARD!"

"Malah still can't decide!"

"Tough noogies! Try for another lift later! We're gonna live the dream!"

Demons pile into the front hall. Purple hair demon counts them. "This is everybody if Malah can't decide!"

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"I can definitely come back another time, maybe in a few weeks. I'll need you all to join hands in a circle with me-" and, pop! Limbo!

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"Okay, that's... is that Eobeolin?"

"Yeah, that's Eobeolin, with the pagoda."

"Yeah, okay. So we want to be forty miles oceanward of here."

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"Mind if I ride with you?"

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"Knock yourself out." One of the demons has raised their hand, presumably so they don't make redundant shuttles. A shuttle materializes and they all pile in.

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He joins them.

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They get enough altitude to see the ocean and fly where they mean to go. Cam is there to meet them on top of a building made of stacked up train cars.

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Raafi hangs back a little, waiting for them to get whatever pleasantries and logistics they need to do taken care of.

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"Hey folks! Thanks for swapping in on so little notice, I have to go see a human about a circle."

"Our pleasure! You're up on everything we discussed?"

"Mm-hm, you're good to go. Hi Raafi."

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"Hi! Thank you again for all your help."

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"It was my pleasure. My circle doesn't seem to be ready yet, but it's also possible I can't feel it from here."

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"They might not be ready for you yet, I just left a few minutes ago. I bet Leonor's still explaining the plan to Tomás, actually, it ended up more complicated than what they're used to doing - in Oerth it's common to give criminals a choice of punishments, and than means that they can use ones that are harsh in different ways instead of having to find one thing that's humane enough for everyone and harsh enough to matter at the same time. Your idea with the fairy bindings was perfect that way; it's definitely not a good default, but having the option of it for people who care that much about getting to be around society means I don't have to worry as much about the other choice taking that away."

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"Oh, cool. Yeah, you don't see speed limits like that used on demons and angels, you have to be a really dedicated athlete with specialized wings to push it much past fifty miles an hour, not really crashing into a skyscraper grade speed there, but if you specifically worry about somebody being clever with no forced action..."

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"Mmhmm. It's a very tricky problem, I was worried we weren't going to find anything that worked."

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"And that would have been terrible," says Cam blandly, while the new batch of demons introduces themselves to some Limboites on the ground.

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Raafi winces and doesn't answer.

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There is an awkward silence.

"You can put me down the same place you picked them up in Hell if that works for you, I really don't know if I can get a summons from here."

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"I'd rather not use my emergency plane shift if I don't need to; I'll try mailing them." He does that.

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"Plan A being hang out until we confirm there's a circle down and see if I can take it after all?"

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"Mmhmm."

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"Okay. You want something to read or is your plan people-watching?"

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"I was on section five of the Davidson Educational Annex summoning course, if you can get that."

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"Sure can." Here it is.

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