But proposing to people you've never met is far more exciting! ....he doesn't think Cam feels that way, though, so he forwards that one.

I told the magazine I didn't think people who developed crushes on the subjects of magazine interviews were my type, but they cut it for length and on reflection my prospective dating life is irretrievably contaminated by fame now anyway. What's your availability?

I'm inclined to think you're a rather noncentral case of a magazine interview subject. And I have classes during the day but am free evenings or weekends.

What time zone and what's your travel capacity like?

I live in NYC, and I can summon a fairy.

So he provides her with a range of time options and the location of his Canadian gazebo.

Before I answer that, I should probably ask what your actual sexual orientation is.

You are the first human to ask me about it. Most daeva suitors specified. I'm bisexual. Kaede is a girls' name, isn't it?

Unisex, actually, and bisexual... rather fits. Because I'm genderfluid.

I have, like, the two-sentence summary of the concept nearly a decade out of date...

Sometimes I'm a boy, sometimes I'm a girl. That used to be merely a cause of intermittent dysphoria and differing presentation before angels became a thing in my life. I usually have, like, boy days and girl days, is why I was asking, today's a girl day but yesterday was a boy day so I'm likely to be a girl for another one or two days based on past experience.

Did you have trouble finding an angel competent to help you out with that for regularly affordable payments?

Some, but I eventually befriended one who agreed to come for a bunch of specifics if I summoned a demon every now and then to make her material goods or a fairy to take her cool places.

What're you paying demons?

Well, lots of them just wanted recs or trips, too... and I suppose this might be the kind of anecdote that would be a dealbreaker but better to find this out sooner than later, I was never terribly opposed to paying them with sex.

I mean, I'd consider that ruled out by monogamy if we were doing that but we are not at this time.

And if we were together, monogamously or otherwise, I would probably not actually need to summon arbitrary demons to pay my transition angel.

This is true.

It's also very good to know that in addition to having done the most good of anyone in the world and being incredibly hot Revelation is also bisexual and does not mind my history of only-technically-not-sex-work.

Not a dealbreaker. I hope you insisted on paying in advance and used a good circle though.

I did. And I actually learned about summoning before, ah, you Revealed. But I feel like this is perhaps a story to be told in person.

If you like. I'm curious.

Then how about we set that date for two days from now?

Sure. See you then.

And two days later: zoom come a fairy and—presumably that twentysomething human's Kaede. "Hello. This is Nita," he introduces the fairy as soon as they land.