"I like to think I'm a pretty reasonable person."

"Sure seems like it to me."

"Mm. So we're still short an answer to the afterlife question. I'm kind of inclined to summon just in case even without it."

"I can maybe use the bird to place a predrawn circle for you if Sindri wants to let me. Can't do it blind but the bird has reasonably accurate transmission of its location."

"One for me, one for Korva?"

"Whoever you summon will get the languages, which will be useful - Cam, do you know anyone you want to nominate as a translator -"

"All my social contacts with fairies and angels are out of date. I know some reasonably friendly demons who might help out for the hell of it but I don't know any who I can guarantee in advance want translation work. I could look up linguistics nerds if that's a priority."

"I think good translation should be a reasonably high post-crisis priority, because if the afterlife trick works we want everyone summoning as fast as possible and even if it doesn't we still want everyone to have lovely things like computers and laundry machines. Possible difficulties include 'what if the afterlife trick does work and mages keep their magic and this becomes a problem in the daeva realms', but on the whole I think that's probably solvable if approached sensibly."

"I really want to know if we're indestructible to local magic. The social fabric of all the daeva realms depends heavily on everybody being indestructible."

"Unfortunately we don't have a mage handy, not counting Ruava since she's apparently, er, deactivated."

"If I knew any other trustworthy mages, I would recommend one."

"Do you have any ideas for how we could find one?"

"Trustworthy people are hard to find."

"I could probably manage something but it would take time and it really sounds like the things we should be most afraid of are also the ones that will be hardest to test."