"Yeah, almost certainly. You can buy most of those potions but some're expensive."

"What do they do besides look cool?"

"Uh, make you look like someone else, make you grow gills so you can breathe underwater, there's liquid luck - makes everything go right that's up to chance - there're sleep potions that last forever on humans, dunno what they'd do on daeva, there's truth potions, there're love potions..."

"Wowwwww. How long do the ones that don't last forever last?"

"Varies by dosage and competence of the potion-maker - usually anywhere between an hour and a day..."

"The sleep one might be useful for the poppy fields people, if they did last on daeva."

"Poppy fields people?"

"I think daeva don't get depressed as much as live humans but if we do we're pretty stuck. So there's a place where some folks will keep demons who'd sooner check out drugged asleep."

"Well. You can take some Draught of Living Death home with you, see if it does anything." He gestures up ahead. "That's Gringotts."

"The architectural sensibility here is really interesting. If kind of light on the plants, would it kill them to plant some ivy...?"

"Does Hell have more plants everywhere? I guess you wouldn't have to wait for them to grow..."

"Or hope that they grow in the shape we have in mind, either, yeah. You do have to be careful about lighting if you don't live in an entire solar system but it's not that hard."

There are goblins at the doors of Gringotts; he nods at them, and they open the doors, and they go in.

"What are those," she whispers.

"Goblins. They handle the banking," he whispers back, and gets in a line.

"Why?"

"- not sure, I'd have to ask Aaron. Historical reasons?"

"What else do they do?"

"...there're wars sometimes?"

"...They can't just do banking and wars, that's stupid, they have to have hobbies."

"I can't say I've ever asked."

"I suppose I don't know what half my neighbors do with their spare time." She is maybe kinda staring at the goblins. The goblins glower back.

"They don't exactly like wizards too much. Mostly wizards' fault, I think."

"Oh, and they think I'm a wizard, too, I guess?"

"Yeah, Muggles don't come through here much and no one here'd know what a demon is - though there's no harm in telling them, as long as we don't mention how to summon 'em -"