"And he's here because he doesn't like prisons?"

"To put it mildly. He can't tolerate people being trapped."

"They're not gonna like that."

"When I say 'can't' I mean it fairly literally."

"Sounds inconvenient."

"So does only being able to be in one place at a time," he shrugs.

"It is, yeah. He do this sort of thing often?"

"Not personally like this, in our world they know better and that's what clerics are for, anyway. He only has the one in this world, though, and he likes to let his run around loose most of the time."

"Why're you along?"

"Oh, various reasons. It's not every day I get to look at an entirely new form of magic."

"We're not allowed to do any of it here."

"Good thing I'm not limited to being in one place at a time, then."

"You also messing with people in the daeva realms?"

"Just watching, there. Mostly."

"Creeper."

He shrugs.

"We all gonna go home? Why the..." He waves a hand. "Interviews first?"

"Not necessarily. He's already given one of you the option of staying here or going to one of our afterlives. You'll get a choice, that's his nature, but not necessarily a completely free one."

"Why not?"

"All travelers are his concern, and that means all people, more or less. He can't allow this to continue but he's not going to prefer to put you in a situation where you'll restrain other people."

"And you're just along for the ride, not to make sure we can all do magic as much as we want?"

"It works a little differently than that, for me," he agrees.

"What's your deal, then?"

"I'm the god of magic itself, not of spellcasters. The - you don't have words for it; under-physics, if I allow that much imprecision - that allows you to exist as you are. That is in no way affected by your situation here. I do approve of people inventing novel uses of it, I'm also the god of curiosity, but it's not central."

"Huh."

One of the fairies wants to go to the Material Plane once he's pieced together its existence.