"I was trying to be hard to reach."

"I think it would be very hard to reach you without ninth circle spells," she says, "and it's hard to do better than that."

...Gallipsiwhoop. Cam isn't going to say anything. "Pleased to meet you too. Is there a safe test of antimagic we could do to see if it'll suppress conjuration or also mess with my indestructibility possibly annihilating me entire? I already have permission to replace a wing if I lose one in indestructibility experiments."

" - my fear would be that it'll dismiss you, that's what it generally does to summoned creatures, and I think we do not know how to get you back."

"Oh, I know how to get me back though I'm not actually sure Carissa likes me that much and I'm also confused about how this hasn't happened here before so it's possible it's not in fact repeatable. You just draw a broken circle with room for me to stand in with the words I summon the apsel Campbell Mark Swan written around the edge, then finish the circle, and you're all set. - I'm currently under a more restrictive circle but you seem chill and it's a whole semester-long course to explain how to do the complicated version right anyhow."

" - I like you fine! I just don't like the thing where I'll probably immediately die!"

"I think you might be in somewhat more danger without me at the moment? I'm not sure."

"Drawing that circle does not sound like it should work and I'm inclined to guess you came here by fluke accident and we cannot get you back if you go," says Felandriel Morgethai. "Which means you should at least give thousands of diamonds to the forces of Good first, and whatever else you have for making things a lot better for people."

"See, I told you she'd want thousands of diamonds."

"Who wouldn't, you can use them to make fucking Wishes. I am not presently at liberty to make diamonds, or I would give you a sackful," Cam sighs.

"Could give them to Lastwall contingent on using them to try to raise you," she says to Carissa. "Or to me, I'd also use them for that, but I expect Cheliax would have attempted to persuade people not to trust me."

"I've done that already with the Church of Abadar."

"Reasonable. While we're on the topic of Lastwall, though, their spymaster wants to meet you. He was a Chelish Worldwound wizard himself, at one point."

"I'm not defecting!"

"He didn't say 'if she defects, she should talk to me', he thought you should talk to him regardless, and swore to let you depart unimpeded and unmurdered and undominated etcetera etcetera."

" - does every important person in the Inner Sea already - know about this -"

"The forces of Good do talk to each other. It's one of Good's great advantages."

Cam pulls his coffee mug from where he has hooked it to his belt and tops himself up on coffee. "Yeah, uh, I sent some letters without telling you, Carissa."

"Kind of Asmodean of you, really. To who?"

"Well, Kofusachi recommended Vigil and Sothis, so there."

"I haven't done that to you," she says, levelly. "Everything I told you I wanted was genuinely Good, by your priorities, as I understood them."

"I appreciate that but I have from very early on in our acquaintance been operating under the assumption that this is not a truly collaborative relationship. If you want a truly collaborative relationship you can snap my binding."

"I don't have the slightest desire for whatever passes for a collaborative relationship among Chaotic Good outsiders."

"But you were trying for the - Lawful Neutral version," says Felandriel Morgethai. "The Worldwound version."