"I can go to London and just find dying people, anyone have a better idea?"

"How would you find them?"

"Hospitals?"

"I know some Muggles and some of them are old."

"That'd be significantly easier - though we probably want 'imminently dying' if possible -"

"How do you know Muggles?"

"Mum thinks they're cute. Some of them might be sick, I can ask, but it's hard to tell for sure if they're definitely going to die."

"If we get a bunch we'll probably have an answer within a year or so, and we can do work that doesn't attract attention until then."

"I can find maybe twenty, I'm not sure that's enough..."

"I know a couple Muggle-born students who might be able to suggest some more."

"Yeah, that would add up if we got enough of those."

"We need someone to stay here at the door and preferably someone else staying in the bar so if the one at the door slips we don't lose everything. And it's - upsetting how many people will die before we have come up with a way to safely distribute summoning - maybe we could convince all wizards to move to Mars -"

"You cannot convince all wizards to move to Mars."

"If anyone could it'd be me and I have so so much to bribe them with."

"You could maybe convince most wizards to move to Mars."

"Wasn't I going to rule Mars? Me and my apparent non-immunity to mind control?"

"Hey how come he gets Mars?"

"Requires terraforming, which is putting plants and air and things, and generally a bunch of things demon powers are useful for. For a time he was considering training a successor; you could apply for the position? And I do not actually want to put all wizards on Mars but especially if you can learn Occlumency you'll be safe enough."

"Time frame on that?"

"It took me like a year and a half and I was doing a lot of other things."

"So not a huge deal in a time pausing bar, okay."

"Yeah, exactly."

"I was faster but I was very motivated."

Nod.

"I'd have recommended you as a Mars-ruler-in-waiting, Miranda, but the whole point of our Mars plans was to have all the vulnerable-to-mind-control-and-extremely-dangerous daeva far away from any wizards. I think that's still viable, but it's going to be awful if that's all we can do. - should check the Imperius and bindings, next, do you know anyone good to ask for that?"