Cam waggles a wing at Jisa.

"Oh, you just mean you could fly on top of buildings? Hmm, if we made a rule that you had to hide inside, then it'd be less good for cheating..." 

Cam nods. "But also I can make stuff that shows me where people are. I guess you could make a rule against that too..."

"I guess that'd be a lot of rules. - Oh, but I can cheat too! Because I have Thoughtsensing now. But I think it'd be more fun for hide-and-seek if there was a rule that neither of us could cheat." 

"- 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."