"Well, you get a job. You can take summonses and resell what they pay you through a flipper, but it's hard to get a regular summon arrangement if you don't have any special skills - it's not impossible, but you'd have to try a bunch of times to get a waste disposal or a tunneling job or something like that you can do without an education in something. Most people just get jobs here in Heaven. What do you know how to do?"

"I know a lot about the biology of some species that I bet there aren't any of here yet, I know things about physics and the scientific method, and, uh, I have good aim with a sling?"

"Okay, maybe you can talk to some biologists about whether they have anything for you to do. The nearest biologist lab is..." She looks it up. "Next town up of here, Calsabrua. I think if you can't fly you can go through the cave pocket, that way, and come out in Calsabrua. But before you go we should talk about the law." She goes over the legal code for this collection-of-towns-and-cave-pockets with him - where he's allowed to take cloud fluff from, where he's allowed to put a new cave if he doesn't want to get an apartment he has to pay for, noise and traffic and nuisance ordinances.

Oh, good, where he can take cloud fluff from was close to the top of his list of things to research.

"If I put a new cave in one of those places, is someone else allowed to take it later, like if I leave?"

"If you register with the pocket manager they'll keep the cave for you for up to five years but after that it'll be filled back in so someone else can use the space."

"Sounds good. Oh, and is there a way to tell the difference between people summoning angels and people summoning me?"

"Oh, yeah, if someone summons specifically you that will feel very different - it's never happened to me personally, but I've never heard of anyone having a hard time telling the difference."

"Thanks! Anything else I should know before I head out?"

If there isn't then he'll make a beeline for the nearest place he can take cloud fluff from legally.

He can take some from a certain edge of the city, or he can register for a cave space in the cave pocket and hollow it out and use that fluff.

He'll take it from the edge, then. Not a lot, he doesn't need a lot for this. Is it about as intuitive as it seems like it should be to turn cloud fluff into fabric?

His fabric doesn't turn out very good at first - the threads wind up clinging together instead of being woven but individually free - but he can fix that with a little more attention.

Interesting. Once he's good enough at fabric he can put some clothes on and take some metal off. Parts of his horns and chestplate are neither structurally necessary nor supplied with blood or nerves, and stick out enough to contribute to how inhuman his silhouette is. And with them shorter he can put on a wide-brimmed hat to hang a veil from, and a loose enough shirt that it's vaguely plausible his torso could be human under it, and gloves (his claws need to be a little shorter and duller for that, which feels wrong even though he's indestructible and has magic), and a floor-length skirt under which it's hard to tell what shape his legs are. That leaves some sharp metal protrusions from his wrists but he hopes maybe they look like jewelry. Now maybe people will think he looks less weird?

Next order of business is to figure out whether he can stand around looking at his computer somewhere in public or if he needs to get a cave for that. Does that seem like the sort of thing other people are doing?

Yup. He'll want to stay out of the middles of things but people hang around computing plenty.

Excellent. Now, what is available for angels to read about safe summoning?

There's nothing preloaded on his computer about it. He can find some very low-grade explanations on the Heavenly internet but it's clear that nobody expects angels to do or teach summoning.

He'll have to get that some other way.

Cam probably doesn't think of himself as evil and daeva are probably relatively similar to each other, so what does the Heavenly internet have to say about right and wrong?

They have lots of ethical philosophy; the stuff he can read in the original or well-translated into Portuguese by people instead of machines is all human-originated, though.

So are some daeva, so he'll skim some of it and download some for later, if that's possible.

Next up: what does the Heavenly internet have to say about demons?

He can download things no problem.

A lot of angels don't like demons, but it's pretty clearly a petty, superficial sort of thing; no one has any actual grievances besides "we were having a fistfight in the concordance and they pulled on my feathers, which is no fair" and things like that. Some angels also hold demons' culture in contempt (anarchic, disrespectful of intellectual property, casually wasteful).

Well, he doesn't love the anarchy, but otherwise that makes them sound great. (He bets demons would've believed him about being an alien. And if he were a demon he could be doing this research from anywhere.)

Okay, he needs books on safe summoning. He suspects he can get those from just about anyone who might summon him, but he'll need to be able to do some kind of job. Which means more practice here. Which probably means visiting that lab. He heads for Calsabrua.

On the way he learns what a circle for him specifically feels like and answers for just long enough to let them know he's still busy with research.

Calsabrua has a lot of plants in it on the buildings, some of which hang, stalactite-style, from the ceiling of the city cavern. The first people he tries don't speak Portuguese and the first one who does doesn't know where the lab is but the next person is able to point him in the right direction.

What a cool design for a city. He's not as fond of it as he would be if it were more homey and less alien, but still.

He'll go show up at the lab and see if it has a greeter or a sign out front or anything like that.

It has a sign that is only in four languages, none of which are Portuguese, and doesn't look like it's intended to be inviting to visitors, but he can open the door.

Hmm. There was some kind of machine translation, wasn't there? Can he turn any of the versions of the sign into possibly-badly-mangled Portuguese?

Yes he can! The sign says "Calsabrua Biology Group".