"We don't, really - pain's supposed to be character-building - recommend   anything?"

"You don't know how to administer to bloodstream or nerve cluster... but if you do it right you'll be thoroughly numb and nothing bad happens long term if you get it wrong -" He names a dose and a drug and where to put it to get any given limb or the trunk and everything below it.

"You're amazing, you know that?"

"I do."

And he goes off to try it.

And a while later he sends Miranda a message - I'm a wizard again!!!!!! I told Cam he was amazing and he said he knew but he's a you so I thought you might be pleased with yourself by extension.

Some of that, some intimidated by what I'll have to pull off to not embarrass him and Mrs. Cultivated The Only Valar Who Don't Suck.

Are you working on something to one-up them with? 

Apparently I'm going to help Elves administer a refugee planet because they're too naive but that's more of an assignment than an accomplishment.

Sounds like kind of a ton of work. Refugees of what?

Places with humans in them, not otherwise specified yet, there's enough of a selection that if I'm helping at that level I can probably filter a lot but I'm doing more reading.

Good luck.

Thanks!

Fair bit bigger than a continent, isn't it.

Yes, it is.

And he sends Cam a note asking for the best demonic med school curriculum please.

Cam replies promptly with the one he used updated with new discoveries since then.

Cool! He will go play with mindless bodies somewhere where it won't weird anyone out.

Meanwhile the Elves are singing. It helps. 

Well, their moods; it doesn't do a thing about anything else.

There isn't anything they can currently do about any worlds except the ones where time is frozen, waiting on a better plan for handling. They can sing as long as they want. 

But, yeah. 

Eventually - "do you think humans are just horrible or do you think once they get a chance to grow older and not be in constant danger they'll -"

"My reading suggested that there were some good ones even under those conditions - even not counting my alts or yours - so there's room for optimism -"

"I don't really like the idea that even in a thousand years we're managing most of the multiverse by containment - not letting daeva figure out there are ways to have children, not letting malicious people summon, not letting murderous daeva take more summons - preventing horrible personal crimes by threatening to imprison anyone who commits them -"

"In a thousand years we will probably have improved on at least some of that, I just don't know how yet."

"Me neither. I'm just trying to think whether that's a sign we should take a thousand years before we do anything or whether we'll need to govern humans to get any better at it -"