"Ours must've had - slightly off-norm tastes? There is variance - maybe he liked the idea of being persuaded to give up his power and beyond that not being able to see the future at all - maybe he has some colossal tragedy planned, but - I don't think so -"

"Well, maybe we can import lots of sad stories and traumatized immigrants to keep him happy."

"We can import so many immigrants - Cam, how long do you think people need to study summoning before we can be really certain they won't make any mistakes, what blessings might help speed that up -"

"If you don't need specialty bindings you can just mass produce circles with a demon or a printer and have people finish them, that's really hard to mess up by accident. If you do need specialties, I used to teach a semester-long course but that was padded with, like, daeva cultural facts."

"So, pretty quick. - you can presumably still mess up at the negotiation stage -"

"Yes. That's also in the semester course but some people just have a lot of trouble speaking precisely - you can cover for that with templates for task and payment that you draw up in advance and don't deviate from. Limits your ability to interview the daeva when you daren't say anything agreementy."

"A semester lasts a short year?"

"Less than half that. For a few hours a week plus some homework."

"So world access is really the only meaningful bottleneck, here."

"There are ten of our father working on portals. He expects he can get it eventually, which suggests the Valar can too - though I think he'd be annoyed if they beat him to it -"

"It might cheer him that we have lightleapers and you don't. And the Silmarils, you don't have those either, your version of my father was seriously careless with his time."

"Not having pressing emergencies probably inspires that."

"Yeah. It was horribly unhealthy for all of us. Hopefully you're a bit more resilient to it, since you have more backup and can't be uploaded?"

"And Eru's going to disable the retro-forking thing except for one volunteer in case it's ever really important again."

"Oh, good for him, that's legitimately useful. And terrifying, I was not clear on the extent to which omnipotence included going back and changing hundreds of millions of specific things about the past without changing anything else - he isn't changing anything else -"

"Nothing else came up in conversation but I am not up on Eru-domestication parameters."

"Well, nor am I -"

"He doesn't do things that are inconsistent with people's memories as of the time he is asked to change them. So your existence will have to be special-cased but it'll just become the case that we can't be retro-forked any more."

"Useful. Once that's done, Cam, do you want a chip, they're lovely -"

"Yeah, my reservations were all upload and fork based, and even with that I was really tempted by some of the blessings."

"Your alt and I both put big bounties on development of better memory and attentional-capacity stuff, and people delivered!"

"Just shy of eidetic!"

"Do you still take notes?"

"Yes, just shy isn't exactly, and the memory blessings work noticeably better on things like 'this event happened in this order' than 'my thought process about it went like so'. Plus for anything that isn't sensitive writing's still ideal for asynchronous or one-to-many communication."

"Our definition of 'secure communications' should probably be adjusted now for demons."