"...This isn't Earth?"

"Nope. I did some math and it'll take, mm, about 800 fairy-hours in total."

"Huh, this is new. Alright, I'm probably in. What're you paying, Summoner?"

"My name is Temple. Payment in food, I can get you a lot of it. And I'm open to other forms of payment including casting a spell."

"...You two had better not be having me on."

Temple raises his hands theatrically and a small cloud forms between them, tiny lighting sparks inside it.

"That could be a weather machine, I dunno tech... But whatever, I'll play along for one kilo of tea, good stuff, chai or something, per hour. Or a few kilos of other stuff. I prefer to work in no more than six hour shifts. Would you like me to begin immediately, summoner?"

"What do you think, Nick?"

"Okay, so. The job is to sink parts of the dead city for six hours starting when I show you the place, you get your food at the end. I'll show you the place then come back and help Temple summon more of us. What's your name?"

"Kara-xie. That would be acceptable. Summoner?"

"That is acceptable." Temple says writing down the terms.

So she steps out of the circle and asks Nick, "Where to?"

Nick flies out the front door and points her, and demonstrates a section of city-sinking, and comes back.

"Next one?"

While Nick was showing the dead city to the fairy, Temple retrieved a couple of large plates and filled them with water.

"Next."

"I'll need to redraw the circle. Two or three minutes."

Temple waits patiently in the other room. He doesn't even have to be told to do so.

"Done."

This time when Temple completes the circle, the fairy that appears is a short man with red hair. "Good day, summoner, fellow Fairy, what needs movin' today?"

Temple repeats the explanation he gave Kara.

This fairy is more excited and less skeptical, and agrees to broadly the same deal as the first one after a little haggling.

Temple accepts this deal. Next fairy?

This fairy wants a spell of some kind applied to her person, but what can he even do?

Temple doesn't feel confident on casting a spell directly on a fairy yet. He wants to research the possibility, but Nick's deal take precedence.

In that case, this fairy is annoyed and convinced he's a fraud and wants to be unsummoned now, please.

Temple does the water-portal trick, he sticks his hand through one of the plates and it sticks out from the other.

"Nick could you levitate the other plate closer to our guest? Maybe closer enough that he can high-five it or something."

He levitates the thing, as asked.