"Most likely, yes," she agrees. "There was a bit of an argument about if I'd gotten an angel to doctor it myself, actually. That was about the only thing that kept them from immediately saying, 'Yup, guilty.' I think she also tried to argue that you'd made the killswitch, but everybody knows that you don't unbind demons." She winks. "So how could you have possibly managed that?"

She giggles. "I'm very glad she's in jail."

"It's a good place for her. Why didn't she just learn to summon her own damn demons?"

"... Honestly? So she wouldn't have had to pay the price for them, I think. She'd make someone else do it. Which means that if she'd succeeded..." Wince.

Snuggle, snuggle. "I'm all right," she murmurs to him. "Thank you so much for saving me."

"You're welcome." Pause. "What would you have done if I had killed her? Killing people started seeming a lot less off-limits when I learned about Limbo."

"I would have been upset with you and extremely worried that you were about to go on a killing spree. Now that I know about Limbo it's less... Off limits, but I still don't like it."

"Yeah, I don't like it either, but - what I didn't like about death before was that I thought people ended. Permanently unsalvageable streams of consciousness. And now I know they don't. Killing people now mostly seems highly impolite and reputationally unwise."

"Right. That's essentially my logic on the matter. I am having trouble imagining a situation where I would willingly destroy people that utterly, honestly. Send them to Limbo, maybe, if I had no other option, but actually ending people I don't think I'm capable of. It's more likely that I'd just - lock them up, make sure they have basic necessities, throw away the key and then ignore them."

"I think people who are purposefully living at the expense of other people living are excellent targets if you can't talk them down and don't have the wherewithal to lock them up, personally. But I haven't killed anybody myself, let alone destroyed them."

Adana shrugs. "Maybe. It's such a situation that I don't see myself being in that it's kind of alien to me. I can always figure out a way to lock someone up if given time and access to daevas. If those weren't options I honestly don't know what I would do."

"If you're going to have a large inhibition, 'no killing people' seems reasonable."

"I think so! Maybe it's easier to kill people, but I like playing life on hard mode. Where I have annoyingly crushing morals about everything."

"Do your morals in fact annoy you?"

She giggles. "No. I mean, sometimes I get annoyed that there is such an obviously easy solution at hand and I'm not taking it, but the morals themselves do not annoy me."

"Good. Sounds, I don't know, itchy."

"Itchy? How so?"

"Having a constraint on your behavior that actively annoys you is unpleasant. It's not intolerable, but it's unpleasant. I would know."

Well, now she just has to snuggle him more and pet his hair. "I'm sorry, Cam."

Pet, pet, pet. Snuggle, snuggle. "It's still bad, though. I'm sorry you have to go through it."

"Well, I don't, anymore, I seem to have picked up a full-time job with a very accommodating summoner."

Adana laughs. "Fair point. I'm happy to help, my dear."