"Yeah, I didn't actually want credit, at least not right then. For reasons which turned out to be very good and a level of secrecy which turned out to be completely inadequate."
"Somebody was making a killing by giving daeva tasks and selling the proceeds and figured out I was responsible for the suddenly reduced long-term economic prospects. I got a bullet in my head."
"It was a hundred fifty years ago. I'm not still indignant about it."
"Yep. I haven't run into the guy, which is probably just as well, it'd be awkward."
"I would, in fact, peg him for fairy in roughly the same way I'd peg you for angel, but since I haven't encountered him, no way to be sure."
She laughs a little. "Okay, that makes me feel a bit better. He gets to spend the entire rest of eternity helping people move. Do you sort summoners into fairy/angel/demon idly? Just curious."
"Usually I don't get enough information on them, but I make guesses, yeah. I see a lot more maybe-fairies than the other kinds."
"Hm. What sorts of characteristics do you think coincide with each daeva? I'm - still kind of curious about what part about me comes off as 'angel-to-be.'"
"I think it's about the magic, not about the culture that's accreted around the magic. And it's kind of hard to put into words. But you seem like you're best suited to a changing power where you take something that exists and make it into something that also exists, but differently."
"I could've rationalized it if I'd woken up an angel, but best suited - yeah. Building things myself from nothing. In theory angels could do the big grandiose stuff, just give them enough cloud or a giant rock or something, but demon power invites massive this-is-not-good-enough-so-let's-make-so
She giggles. "Which I am not complaining about, by the way. You have corrupted me, I am all for demon's ability to make cool things."
"I still think you're gonna be an angel. Maybe I should corrupt you more and then you can come move in with me later."
"The lakes of fire, then? The mini black holes? Give me some tourist attractions to look forward to, if I get corrupted to demon-hood! Besides the company, I mean."
"There are lakes of fire, and mini black holes, and truly heroic efforts to make gardens and wildernesses in the absence of natural light."
"Ooo. Do they use some sort of artificial light? I would think someone would think to make a sun, if you've got eternity to make it."
"There are a few suns but they're not that near the tacky plane of gold. The airspace right above said tacky plane is full of demons who want to be within commuting distance of the plane and would object to a sun appearing a fraction of an astronomical unit away."