She smiles at him.

"So what do I owe you?"

"Usually the summoner thinks of something. Most summoners don't let demons even talk."

" - what."

"They think we'll talk them into making unwise bargains," she says sweetly.

"Yeah, well, I guess you might."

"Sometimes we do!" Smirk.

"I'm trying to think how much of four hundred years of sheet music I can even fit in my trunk, that'll sort of affect how extravagantly I can compensate you for it. Are there - lists of things I really shouldn't miss -"

"You'd want it on paper?"

"...there're other ways?"

"Yeah? ...I don't remember what was invented four hundred years ago, I was mostly into landscaping when I was that young."

"- do demons just live forever?"

"Yyyyes?"

"Can you export that? Because wow."

"I mean, when humans die they go to Limbo, which sucks but then they don't die again. Unless they're like Cam. That fuckhead." She picks up her letter in progress and adds you could have wrote me. Fuck you. Love and kisses, Amriac.

"- how'd Cam get to be a demon?"

"I never actually asked how he died exactly but he does sometimes think he's being real funny saying 'speaking as a murder victim'."

"No, I mean as opposed to going to - Limbo?"

"Oh. I dunno, there's probably a reason."

"Timothy probably has all that stuff handled. - okay so what ways of representing music not on paper are there?"

"My circle is gonna get crowded if you don't at least pretend to pay me for something that can cover all the things I might be making."

"You can't leave until we agree on something? Fuck, I'm sorry - no one mentioned - will you please make me music from the future in exchange for whatever you want if it's mine to give away, is that sufficient -"

"You're a very silly summoner," she tells him. "Deal." And she stretches her wings past the borders of the circle and hands him an object. "These jobbies are the best for sheet music, you just prop them up and think at them and don't have to push buttons or turn pages, you have to teach it how you think at things though."

"Think at them? That's amazing - why am I a very silly summoner -"

Amriac boops his nose. "What do you think people normally pay demons with - when we can make whatever we like - that they might not have told your kid brother about?"