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After Cam's magic but still basically human boyfriend has fallen asleep and Cam finds he is not tired enough to do the same, Cam goes downstairs.
Mingling arrives
from_scratch
"Limbo didn't come up - it's possible at least some of them didn't know about it in the way you might not be able to name an obscure South American culture which receives occasional missionaries from Europe and maybe exports cocoa beans but not very many of those - and since summoning was so rare, ex-summoner daeva were incredibly obscure and I think I didn't meet anybody who knew any."
from_scratch
"It is not common knowledge on Earth and probably should be, yes, although I didn't really have to consider that question before since nobody let me talk."
too-early-and-too-late
"The Elves can mention it, though. In a thousand years or whatever, once they stop moving at a crawl."
from_scratch
"Yeah. And then people can summon their summoner relatives and soon there will be insipid personality quizzes on the extranet intended to tell you what you'll be when you die if you summon somebody."
from_scratch
"Fairy probably? If my guess about how the insipid personality quizzes ought to go is right."
from_scratch
"Sort of metaphorical suitedness to the magic broadly construed. I think you're more moving-things than making-things or changing-things."
from_scratch
"That would weird me out if it were mine, too, since they've been divorced for like a hundred seventy years."
from_scratch
"No. It probably wouldn't have helped anything to have the deliberations obviously about 'how do I get really good return on murdering your mom' as opposed to the vaguer 'destroying your homeworld and anybody on it who didn't leave with you'."
too-early-and-too-late
"I'm going to go get written works referencing the Valar from Bar, get a broader sense of - the kind of things they tend to do -"
too-early-and-too-late
"I don't think he wants you to avoid him. He will probably say something unhelpful, though, so if you'd rather -"
too-early-and-too-late
"He might've forgotten all about it, tiny children have short attention spans."
from_scratch
"Tiny Elves? With fifty-five million names to read? - He might notice when he runs into a name that matches somebody in the backyard he's been singing with."