"I don't know, it'd be exhausting, wouldn't it?"

"Seriously. I suppose we can always duck back out again." Clothes!

Yes those. And downstairs.

"Hello! You must be Amriac, if I mutilated my hair and were like forty I'd look like him."

"I'm Amriac, yeah. I listened to some of your stuff, it was so sad -"

"Our world has this nutty god who created Melkor because he finds tragedy really moving, and these days we've talked him down into appreciating operas and doomed romances and so on. Much nicer than having real tragedies all the time - Singularity has one of those gods too, and he can be assumed to have let everything happen because it was so narratively satisfying."

"Oh, you mean you're not just really depressed or something?"

"I count myself quite satisfied with my life although it has until today been terribly devoid of wizards or demons or magic of any stripe."

"We're very interesting," she asserts. "Also there are dragons, Michael showed me dragons."

"Oooooh. I would love to go see dragons but Mandos is busy and would probably be irritated to have a proper resurrection on his hands, it's been centuries, and dragons sound dangerous."

"Not so much if you're careful or a demon."

"As I am neither, that doesn't help."

"I suppose you could bring binoculars but it's more fun when you can go pet them," Amriac says smugly.

"Sounds it. Eh, maybe I'll chance it anyway, there are two of Nelyo now and I think I have no obligation whatsoever to be responsible."

"Not how it works."

"Is that so, baby brother?"

"Amriac, while you're here, want to try opening the door to Hell, we don't know if it preserves bindings or preserves the status of being on a summons or what -"

"I like the summon I'm on though."

"I can grab you back if it counts."

"And you can also just walk back in and continue carrying on, unless the status of being on a summons is important in some way -"

"Oh, I suppose I've probably milked all the fun I can reasonably have out of being entitled to whatever I like," sighs Amriac.

"No one mentioned that, is there a story there?"

"You might find it insufficiently tragic."

"Timothy told him to summon me and it was so confusing but then I gave him a few hundred years of music and showed him the instrument I invented and he said I could have anything that was his to give which is a very silly thing to tell a demon you just met but it was adorable," Amriac explains.

"Awwwwww. Well, he can just do it again, can't he?"