"You could also try an intermediate solution, like summoning someone I have met and might be able to swear to secrecy, or summoning someone who is really likely to be willing to just live here indefinitely, probably to adopt some kids because daeva are sterile. Uh, fun fact."

"Oh. That's...good to know." Shavri shares an inscrutable look with Randi. 

"Do you know someone you'd trust to keep the secret?" 

"I don't have a ton of friends. I know people, but I don't have a list written up of my expectations about their behavior in outlandish situations."

"Any reason you can't just get in touch with Leareth and ask him if he'd mind? ...Also, you should tell him about the afterlife part, maybe it'll get him to quit it with his horrible immortality setup." 

"I can send him a letter but it seemed like letting him know more about how summoning works might be a hard sell for folks on this end. But yes, I should tell him that part."

Randi shoots Kilchas an irritated look. "- Yes, that's one of my concerns about involving him!"

He glowers at the wall for a moment, then rolls his shoulders, forcing them to relax, and turns back to Cam. "Well, do you know people you're pretty sure would take us up on, er, staying here and adopting children? Because there are a lot of orphans, right now - it'd solve two problems at once..." 

"I don't know anyone personally but I can look into the interest groups for that sort of thing, find someone well recommended."

Randi rubs his forehead. "I - think that's probably our best options for right now? Until, er - Shavri, are you sure we can't just grab Vanyel for half a candlemark?" 

"No." 

"I'll look somebody up and hopefully they'll promise not to tell all their friends where they are if you let them adopt some kids. Uh, they're likelier to want younger ones, that's a common preference, are there many of those or do orphaned babies just kinda die around here?"

"...Infants usually don't last long. I think we can find some young toddlers." 

"That'll probably do, I'll screen out anyone who writes all the time about specifically only wanting an infant." He conjures something and starts skimming through it on his computer.

Shavri hovers behind Randi's chair, hands resting on his shoulders while they wait. Keiran goes back to pacing. Kilchas stares out the window, frowning at nothing in particular. 

"- okay, I have some results from the relevant social clubs for all three daeva worlds, do you want to round out the set with a fairy or what?"

"Remind me what fairies do, again?" 

"Move things. Very very fast, if they want to, like, to the moon in a couple seconds."

"Huh! Sure, that sounds useful. We can go ahead and try that, I guess." 

"Okay. Randi, do you want to summon the fairy?"

"He should do it, yes, that makes the most sense. I guess if the fairy's all right with it and promises not to say anything, we can dismiss them and have other people rotate summoning them?" 

Randi nods. "Right. What do I have to actually do?" 

"Hang on, let me skim the standard fairy adoptive parent binding, see if it will still make sense in this context..." He makes three small edits to the standard fairy adoption binding and then exists one at Randi's feet and gives him a pen to fill in the gap. "He might not answer right away, if he's busy, mind."

"Mmm, right." 

Randi stares at the paper for a long time, visibly indecisive, and then shrugs to himself and fills in the last gap. 

Kilchas turns to watch, expectant and curious.