Adana hugs him back, clinging just a bit. "Thank you. For saving me. And for not - using the broken binding as an excuse to go on a rampage."

"I don't even like rampages." He strokes her hair. "If you're still spooked you can shoo me and resummon me and I can make you a shuttle that doesn't have its door taken off and go nice and quiet with you to Harmony."

"I'm - I'm less spooked now, because you could have made some chloroform, used it on me before I could react, then drop me in a dungeon ten miles underground with everything I needed to live and you'd have been basically free to do whatever you liked here. The fact that you're not is - nice and non-spooky."

"I do try. But if you have unsubstantiated fears to soothe."

"A few, but I am getting over them, the hug helps a lot. Also saving my life, or at least my free will, that helps."

"Cool. You do still need me quieted up for your test, though, so at some point you're going to have to dismiss and resummon."

"Yes, but it can wait a little bit." Hugs, damn it, they are important right now. "I felt like such a jerk gagging you and - doing that, if you noticed."

"I noticed. It's okay. You are not a jerk." Hugs. Wingful hugs.

"Thank you," she says, pillowing her head on his shoulder. "... What should we do with - with unpleasant killswitch person in a box over there?"

"I don't know, you didn't want me to kill her. Do you have some kind of authority you'd like to turn her over to?"

"I guess I could throw her to Harmony's police force along with the comm logs and get her arrested for extortion and possibly murder, it sounded like she's done this before."

"Sure," says Cam agreeably. "Are you going to be arrested if you show up with a loose demon?"

"... Yeah, probably. And then people will try to shoot you and it will be unpleasant for everyone involved."

"I understand that people will shoot at loose demons but I have never understood it in a tactical sense."

"I think the theory is slowing you down long enough to throw the summoner responsible at you so they - or uh, we - can send you back. Or, if the summoner isn't cooperative, kill them and send you back that way." Wince.

"Right. So please don't get arrested on the charge of having a loose demon, that sounds inconvenient and pointless for everyone involved."

"Yeah, I'll avoid that. One brush with threatened death's enough for one day, thanks."

He hugs her and pets her hair again.

She laughs, a little. "I'm okay, really. Or - well, still kind of shaky but I am on the road to being okay."

"I'm not in a hurry."

"It's all right. I haven't read it yet."

"That's something, at least. I'm going to take my little victories where I can get them. Optimism!"

He laughs and snuggles her.

She is snuggled! "You're incredibly huggable, you realize, I was not expecting this at all when I was freaking out and summoning a demon for the first time," she teases.