"It's not trivial like that."

"Food and clothes and you tell me where you got the wings, spy stuff stays a maybe until then."

"That and all the other non-spying materials for where I got my wings."

"Deal. What d'you want - and where -"

This she did write down and she wants it over there.

Food! Clothes! Non-chiplocked computer, paper, soap and so forth!

"I've had wings my whole life."

"And you're not an angel. So you're, like, a winged person? ...from that planet that had a nuclear war? No, I saw a picture, those weren't winged -"

"You wanted to know where my wings were from and now you do. You want the rest?"

"Yep. Still not super interested in spying on people, not if it's, like, personal stuff -"

"I can't guarantee I won't run into anything personal but it's not what I'm actually interested in."

"All right, deal."

The demon can probably piece together most of the secret over the course of the forensic conjuration.

There was this metal thing back home. It's magic; the demon can't make one that works. They can conjure for the architect of the amphitheater, though, and their surroundings and their past surroundings, and the designer of the metal thing, and where he's from, and written works where they're not chiplocked. And received correspondence, too - the architect has been talking to this person has been talking to that person has been issuing announcements about "Vanda Nossëo" which is a planet and the demon can conjure it -

He does. "...so, you want a spaceship? No - wait - no spaceships have been to your world -"

"They haven't," agrees Tireh. "I don't know how they got there, but I know how I got out, and now I know where to go."

"And what are you going to do?"

"That's not part of the deal," she smiles. "Besides, it depends what happens when I get there."

"The magic metal thing they left - did it hurt anyone? Is your home world okay?"

"Nah, it didn't hurt anybody, it was very friendly really."

"That's good. Because - no one from any of those worlds is in Limbo, or Hell, or anywhere else - just checked -"

"Didn't think so."

"You can send me home, I have to show some people this. You were right, good secret."

"There might be a reason nobody knew. Can I get you to wait a few days for word from me in case I find anything about that?"

"Yeah, okay, I can spend a couple days just finding all the places these people have been."

"Thanks!"

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