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.
"There's just not that much to worry about, but it does seem like it'll come in handy elsewhere."
"You can watch me talk to a couple angels, I guess, and then we can compare reads."
There is a racist angel who is scared of Cam and a medical angel who's trying to get on a list and an angel who is so!!! excited!!! about magic!!! and an angel who gets distracted by the Igbo alphabet because he already had Igbo and that's not how it's written and an angel who is just really into the sky and wants to look at it, in Heaven they don't have a sky you see.
"It really is. - why would an angel be afraid of you, your powers don't work on each other, do they?"
"Not more than a little, I could've briefly and mildly injured her. - Though she couldn't leave the circle, so I could have invaded her personal space."
"It's a good thing Elves don't daevafy, I have no idea what'd happen to us if you left us in a circle. Is that a common problem? Personal space invasions?"
"It's not something you expect to happen on an average summon but demons have a bad reputation and I was being euphemistic."
Oh my god Elves.
"I didn't think - if there's a convenient way to avoid that we should avoid that -
- are there any wanted daeva we could keep an open summons for, to sync the worlds -"
"Lemme see..." There's a list of daeva who relevant authorities wish to contain as safety hazards for this-and-that.
"They can have lots of freedom of movement without being able to hurt people, bindings are nice like that. I'd rather not have them as permanent Milliways residents if they did show up though."
"I don't actually know if going home through a door would obviate their summon. Could send Minor into my house and find out, I guess."
"Probably worth knowing; if it does you could stop being reliant on a small child in Singularity and I can stop worrying it'll occur to someone to wonder if a fork of that small child can dismiss you."
"And if it doesn't we could humanely ensure that troublemaking daeva can't take randoms and wait for someone to make a mistake."
"Without dragging them away from their homes, even."
Can you tell Minor to come be an experimental subject again -
He was - not under the impression you were going to bother.
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