"- Thoughtsensing? Like mindreading? Don't do that. Regardless of whether we are playing hide-and-seek."

"I wasn't!" Jisa protests, with the affronted indignance of someone accused of eating cookies that in fact she was virtuously ignoring even though they were RIGHT THERE. "Uncle Van said I shouldn't." 

"I'm so glad to hear that. Continue to not."

This interaction seems to throw Jisa off her question-asking game for a minute or two; she kicks her feet and stares at her knees, her expression sheepish and sullen at the same time. 

Eventually, though, she looks up again. "What's it like being summoned?" 

"Feels sorta like pulling a loose thread on your clothes, and then you're somewhere else."

"Whoa! That sounds amazing. Can you decide whether or not you want to go, or does it just happen to you?" 

"I can decide! If I'd rather stay home and read I can do that."

"But you must not know who summoned you until you get there, right? Or you'd've known we're from somewhere different." 

"That's right! If someone was summoning me in particular, I could check, but if it's just a summon for any apsel, there's not enough time, somebody'll take the summon before anyone can check."

Jisa nods, then frowns. "Right when you got here you said it wasn't safe for me to draw the circle on the floor? But people do it on purpose to summon you or other apsels?" 

"Right, if you do it correctly it's safe. It takes a while to learn though."

"Huh. What's complicated about it?"

"Well, you have to write in bits that say what the apsel - or another kind of daeva, there are three - is not supposed to do, and my circle didn't have any of that."

"Like what? Could I make a circle that says you're not allowed to cheat at hide and seek?" 

"It's much more complicated than that, but you could make one that said I couldn't fly, if that was the kind of cheating you had in mind."

Jisa is immediately distracted. She bounces up and down. "Can you take another person flying? Like me?" 

"I've never tried to carry a kid but - maybe? I might not be able to take off from a standing start, though, which means jumping off something, which your parents might not like."

Jisa leans closer, lowers her voice to a conspiratorial whisper. "We don't have to tell them." 

"As long as we don't in fact jump off anything, we sure don't!"

Jisa thinks hard for a moment. 

"You could make a giant enormous feather bed!" she suggests eagerly. "Right under whatever we wanted to jump off. I think the astronomy tower would be good. And then it'd be safe because even if I fell I'd just land on the feather bed. ...Also it'd be fun to have a giant feather bed. Especially if it was bouncy. Could you make it bouncy?" 

"Yes, I could make something bouncy to land on. I still think your parents might want to have veto power over this plan."

Jisa nods, but is clearly already distracted by wondering about other things Cam could make. 

"- Could you fill my whole entire bedroom with beans and then we could swim in them? I read a story once where someone swam in a giant bucket of beans and I want to see if you really can." 

"I really can but I can't get rid of them afterward so it would be better not to."

"Oh. I guess Mama would be mad then. Maaaaybe we could...sell them at the market after. Or give them to beggars or something? Although beans aren't very tasty. Can you make cake too? How much cake could you make at once?" 

"Beans you have swum in wouldn't be very sanitary. I can make cake too, more than you could eat before it went bad in just a second."