He is reading a summoning textbook - it's not as interesting as the electrical engineering textbook but it's just as important and he wants to pester some daeva about the languages spoken in Heaven, Hell, and Fairyland. It has a background chapter on Revelation.
He asks Bar for Cam's obituary.
He waves his wand, instead, to tug Cam over and into his arms. "We're going to fix the whole multiverse."
"I was interviewing angels who'd want some tractable kind of payment for a recurring job answering summons on my world - preferable to teaching people to summon random ones, and we can obfuscate enough of the process that they can't easily rederive it. If you want to help-"
"You're out of paper circles, or did you have something else in mind?"
"Payment, my odds of getting anything out of Minor are approximately the same as my chances of spontaneously manifesting demonic powers myself."
"Please don't spontaneously manifest demonic powers, you'd falsify my theory about daeva type sorting. I am happy to pay your angels."
"We'll probably find out sometime. Okay." Kiss. And to his alt, "want to help?"
"That sounds like so much fun, yes I would - Rúmil, Mirelótë, want to come, it seems like a good thing to be familiar with even aside from getting to meet lots of angels -"
Outside! Circle! "Do you have an explanation of how everything works -"
"Cam's been making the circles because he knows how and it's important to get exactly - most daeva are perfectly friendly but they're both unused to spending time around fragile people and - more in the case of demons - filtered for less friendliness among the ones who bother to take summons - what would you pay a demon with -"
"Concerts work! They're not a first choice if you have something else on hand because in Revelation you have to escort a daeva you're paying in live performance, so you have to buy two tickets and hang out with a daeva whose company you may or may not personally enjoy, but it's totally a thing."
"Animals used to work really well but have been declining in value over time as the daeva worlds develop populations of the species people are fond of. If we find alien animals there'll be a resurgence, and some people like obscure species. Commissions are very popular but in the case of demons you want to be willing to work to fairly exacting and potentially high-context specifications lest your demon go 'yeah or I could rummage around in the library of Hell and find something I haven't read yet'."
"So most demons who take summons are pretty much doing so for fun?"
"Some of them. Others are looking for a chance to do something nasty to somebody who isn't indestructible."
"Your options are 'random' or 'somebody in particular', some people make it their business to go through randoms and interview them and publish lists of somebodies in particular and what Broadway musicals they want to see and what certifications they have etcetera."
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