"I'd appreciate it if you did. You'll probably have to remind my older self to thank you for it later, though."

"If it ever seems opportune perhaps I will."

He lets himself out of the tomb and heads to the metal heads.

He can just beat Kor back, if he takes off immediately, though probably not by much.

Cam will be waiting for Kor's arrival. Maybe he will get to see him shed his disguise.

He comes in already in metal head form, flying even though his proportionally very small wings don't look at all like they should support his weight.

"Hey. How do you do that? - the disguise but I'm also curious about the flying, fairies use magic to fly because bug wings can't lift someone of a person's size."

"Eco can be used in some counterintuitive ways. Flight is very common. Shapeshifting, somewhat less so, and it is rare to achieve more than a change of color scheme." He sounds smug.

"Congratulations, I guess. Is there a particular reason you were surreptitiously doing summonings? And posing as a human?"

"I was posing as a human to gain information about happenings inside Haven City. I was, in other words, spying. As for the summoning, yes, I wanted to read material from your internet."

"You could have, like, asked."

"For specific material from the internet or for the ability to access information about your kind's motives and abilities that you did not have the chance to filter?"

"...either? I mean, there's a lot of information in the world, I would not in fact have time to filter if I just dumped enough of it on you. Demons do not have consistent motives, though, we're all different folks."

"I did not know enough, before, to believe those claims. Now I do."

"I see. Now that you have done this research what's next?"

"Those who would rather live forever will summon. At some point we will have either a finished translation of a summoning textbook or a metal head demon, at which point we will find out whether we have any other afterlife. We may, at some point in the distant future, if it seems both wise and feasible, arrange stable transit between the daeva realms."

"Cool, sounds exciting. Uh, do you want to name somebody dead so I can check the afterlife sitch for you right now?"

"I would appreciate that." He names someone dead.

"...this might have a weird result if they time traveled, but a negative should be a true negative." Conjure?

Nope.

"I don't see anything. - which is a true negative in the sense that it means they're not physically instantiated somewhere at this time but if you, like, all get resurrected in a few centuries by some sort of mass revival event I wouldn't catch that, or if you become beings of pure eco when you die."

"But it is more information than we had before, and it is good news. Thank you."

"Why is it good news?"

"I am not sure I know of any species where every member would like to be immortal. And there are people it would be tremendously awkward to see alive again, whatever their own preferences."

"That's true. Daeva can be kept unconscious, if we want."

"I will pass that on; I think there are people it might influence."