Cam died at age 22 and was survived by his parents and will be mourned by his colleagues, classmates, and students at the university where he taught summoning. His killer was apprehended without further incident and no longer remains at large and his name has been leaked to the newspaper by a university source.

Yeah.

He goes up to his room and draws a circle. Fairy first, most people are apparently fairies -

This person is a fairy. Here he is, with yellow butterfly wings.

"Hi. I was wondering why you murdered Cam."

The fairy blinks.

"That was a long time ago."

"Yeah. I only just met him and heard the story, and also I'm thirteen, so I couldn't ask you back when it actually happened."

"This is seriously why you summoned me?"

"Yup."

"Look, I have a regular gig, I need to be available when they summon me. Send me back."

"How long were you expecting this summons to take, because most things I could plausibly have wanted would have taken longer than answering a question. In fact, complaining about being summoned to answer the question has already taken you longer than it would have taken to answer the question."

"I was expecting this to be my usual summons, and they'll try to get ahold of me any minute."

"There's a time dilation thingy. Why'd you murder Cam?"

"He pissed me off." The fairy starts reading the binding on his circle.

He's pretty sure he did it right. "So you murdered him? Do you usually try to kill people because they 'pissed you off'?"

"Usually people don't piss me off." Read read.

It's copied exactly from the textbook. "Wow, you're a horrible person. I'm kind of disappointed. I was hoping you had - a reason, or something."

The fairy lingers over a bit of wording. "Last chance, kid."

"There's a time dilation thing, you're not missing your usual summons, and does your usual summoner know that you murder people whenever they annoy you, because it seems like they might want a fairy who doesn't do that. Most people aren't that horrible even in my world."

The fairy gathers all the air in his circle together, leaving a fair amount of vacuum around him. It pulls Minor in.

- that's not fair he didn't miscopy it -

The fairy doesn't care if it's fair.

Snap.

He goes home.

"We should probably have someone in the main bar all the time, lest people walk in and get missed," he says idly to Cam.

"Yeah, that's a good idea. And maybe some kind of shift arrangement on door duty for worlds where we're trying to pass time."

"Yeah. It'll have to be you whenever it's Hell, though, I don't totally trust Amriac not to mention it incautiously -"

"And who knows where her door would turn out to be."