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It turns out that Adana's space station is not in Bartalamos' jurisdiction. She wouldn't be inclined to care much, except that means that in her new jurisdiction, she does not have a license. Since she is very much a summoner, and would not like to be an illegal summoner - she will take their test. She's fortunate in the fact that this particular government plays fair with foreigners that have summoner's licenses. She does not have to go through the grueling paperwork process, or wait ages in line, or take a test she knows all of the answers to, anyway.
What she does need to do, though, is demonstrate a capability to summon and bind a daeva, securely. Their definition of secure is different from hers. Theirs involves binding a daeva to two phrases and a task. This isn't the kind of thing Adana likes to do to her summons. It's mean, and it feels like she's reducing them to being less than people. There is one that she knows of that's used to it, at least. She doesn't know if that makes it worse, or better. So she will ask, first.
This circle is quite a bit neater than the last one, and is missing the 'no talking' clause. Calling friendly neighborhood demon, want to get summoned?
ask_nicely
from_scratch
"We mooch off human culture a lot. There are demons making music and writing books and stuff, but we make ourselves lots of human media when we know how to find it."
ask_nicely
"Thus, the datastick that will have music for you, and the book list," agrees Adana. "Makes sense."
from_scratch
"Yeah, although we can make a lot of headway even without things like that. For a long time I conjured physical newspapers because they came out regularly and looked for bestseller lists. Then physical newspapers went completely extinct, of course, you've probably never seen one."
ask_nicely
"Never in my life, no. Uh - well, it's not really a solution for when you're back in Hell, but while you're here you can visit lots of news sites on the extranet. I'm not a bad boss, you can look at the news while you're here. Or funny cat pictures."
from_scratch
"Like I said, heartening! Something would be truly wrong if you gave humans a massive communication network and they did not fill it with cats."
ask_nicely
Adana giggles. "Yeah, I'd be worried for our souls if there wasn't a single cat to be seen."
ask_nicely
"I don't know what they do but people keep writing about them, so I am concerned about them!"
from_scratch
"Because of course all their writing is thoroughly well-informed, unbiased, well-researched, empirically grounded...?"
ask_nicely
"... Okay I feel like you are hinting that they either do absolutely nothing or don't exist."
ask_nicely
"That's exciting! All of its secrets? Those are a lot of secrets, we don't even know everything about our galaxy, let alone the entire universe."
ask_nicely
She giggles. "I'll take it."
Then there is a beep from her navigation console, and - it looks like they are approaching Harmony.
Then there is a beep from her navigation console, and - it looks like they are approaching Harmony.
from_scratch
"You wanna resummon me right here in the shuttle and walk out with me all docile-like?"
ask_nicely
She nods, then goes through the process of dismissal. Poof, off he goes to his home. Then she redraws a new circle, outlining all required safeties, and - summon?
ask_nicely
Adana smiles back at him. "Hi. Again. Keep me safe while you're here and make me a datastick and I will give you music?" she offers.