"So, Spring and Idania and Max can summon angels - how long are you guys willing to spend finishing circles and making sure that the angels don't want anything I had better not give them and then dismissing them when we're done with them, should we call it good with three or call in other people?"

"I'm good for - hours, but possibly not days unless it's strictly necessary. I may be able to enlist some of the priesthood and the junior faithful - it's not disease related, but it's a cleanup project."

"Yeah, that will not fly with mine. Alas, my minions suck at minioning. And my boyfriend's a mage, that means he's out, right?"

"Yes. Tricky afterlife plus ghosts."

"Bleh. Well, I'm good with drawing things for a few hours, anyway."

"Also fine with hours. We can enlist our dads if necessary. They'd be confused, but helpful."

"I just had the visual of - legions of fathers. Descending."

"Dads, moms, legions of nonmagical hirelings?"

"I can afford nonmagical hirelings but I'd have to explain what they were doing, right? And my money's no good in your worlds, it's got daemons in the portraits of the dead presidents."

"Bet we can grab the non-twin volunteers with the Junebugs once they realize what's going on."

"Do the Junebugs have much access to non-twin staff? Also, extra layer of 'what the hell are you doing' if we have to disclose the 'you might turn into a magic wingy person' risk."

"... Fair point. Mm."

"I'm pretty sure," says Max, raising a hand, "That all of our dads are entirely nonmagical and would probably be fine with superpowers upon death. Er, Adarin dads, Bell dads I have no idea. But ours, definitely. So. Let's go get them?"

"I think Charlies and Renées would probably help, under the circumstances."

"My mom's disqualified, same reason as me, but I can get my Charlie, shall we all disperse and collect parentals?"

"Let's. This is going to be interesting..."

"I'm gonna... number you, so the angels know who to go to in order to be dismissed," says Cam. "I think the efficient way to handle this is to have you all in a line here near the Earth portal in Inferno, in front of a sign outlining the deal on offer. Me and Revival and Zane will be over here, I'll make most of each circle and you finish them. You ask the angel if it agrees to the printed deal, if it doesn't you dismiss it, if it does you say 'deal' and then it'll go through Conduit's portal - Conduit, you're going to want to put the Gemini end closer to ground zero - and then Revival'll clear the circle away and I'll replace it and you do it again. In a few hours angels will start coming back, us demons will give them things within the parameters outlined by the original deal, and they will go back to their summoners and you will dismiss them. This takes a minute of concentration per angel. If an angel wants to stick around and do extra ash-busting that's fine. Keep a checklist of how many angels you have summoned so we don't lose any."

"We'll go warn the Junebugs and... can we get, like, air filtering helmets so I can take Conduit to somewhere above ground zero so the portal can have an end there?"

"Yeah, of course. Now or after you warn them?"

"After."

"All right then. I'll need to re-make the portals, too, I can't keep them up forever. But I'll warn you before I drop and remake them, so it's not going to be a problem."

"And I'll be a portal anchor. Yay, exciting!"