"No," snorts Idania. "I can fly, it's awesome, I don't need wings."

"Because she's Rae's acolyte," explains Spring to the daeva. "If you spot me flying it's because of this necklace Prime made me. Anyway. Idania, the winged people do magic architecture, how do you feel about the architectural decisions you made when you had to cajole people into hauling the relevant objects up a mountain?"

That sentence and the implications of it actually causes her to briefly drop out of the sky and land slightly less than gracefully. And then, after a brief stumbly correction, she says intensely, "No. Not at all, magic architecture, what do you mean by magic architecture, what are the exact limits of what you magical winged people can do? Because I have ideas."

"... Uh? I can change anything to anything else, and he can make anything. We are good at being a team."

"Do you, by any chance, like testing things out? Trying new things?"

"Sometimes? If it gets me things that I want?"

Idania floats closer, grinning. "We are going to have fun together."

"It is also," mentions Cam, "possible to, effectively, hire any of billions of other people with abilities identical to ours, if you nip into our world first and draw something. But maybe you'll come up with experiments that haven't been done, who knows."

"That is - I'm - I am going to need specifics on the drawing I would have to do and what it's common to pay people with. But I want that."

"Fairies you can get to do relatively brief things for, like, food or trinkets. Angels haggle more but they're still in the market for material goods, especially complicated ones. Us demons are tricky to pay but you can get nice ones to do things for you with book recommendations."

"I do know a lot of books, but - you're under Cypress's fancy translation spell, right? I bet the demons I summon wouldn't be, and it's not like I know that many foreign books." She tilts her head. "What do the non-nice ones want people to pay with? Do they just not make deals, or is it more like, 'Bwuahahaha, let me have two continents and an island and enslave all of the people on them, and you can have a pretty house," or something?"

"... Not quite. More - uh. 'The oldest profession' kind of - deals."

"The oldest...? Hunter? Gatherer? Holder of the burny thing that brings light and also ouch when touched...?" Idania pauses. "Oh. That oldest profession. Bleh, pass, I've got a boyfriend."

"The language won't be a problem, though, you summon a daeva and they get all your languages free."

"Ooooo," says Idania, grinning again. "How does that work? If I only know half of a language does it only get my vocabulary, is it only the same vocabulary?"

"They get about your facility with the language but not an identical vocabulary."

"Sweet. What about if I - invent a language, before I summon them, but don't finish the vocabulary for it. Do they get part of the unmade vocabulary? Or just all that exists?"

"Don't know, I never tried it. Angel, is there research I'm in the dark on about conlangs and summons?"

"Probably somewhere, but I don't think I've heard of it. Sorry."

"Then," declares the acolyte, "I am going to test that." Pause. "After the magical architecture, please, I would love the magical architecture."

"Sure. What-all do you look for in a house?"

"It's really tempting to say, 'giant freaking house with lots of absurdities,' but if I'm honest, something smaller and more personal's better. Nice bedroom with a large and fluffy bed, spare bedroom for a friend, kitchen, dining room, living room that is secretly trying to be a library when it grows up big and strong, nice view, big windows, bathrooms that are kind of huge for the size of the house and also in comparison to normal houses in general. Oo, ooh, and a workshop, with - tons of equipment, how high tech can you go?"

"Arbitrarily, but you have to tell me more specifically than 'equipment' what you're looking for. Also you should tell me if you have a layout in mind for all this or want me to make it up."