"Oh, how’d you pick them?"

"I landed there and haven't seen a particularly strong argument in favor of their competitors, mostly. I'd probably have stayed here if I landed here."

"And yet here you are."

"Yeah, apparently this is the holding area for people the Republic is vetting. They apparently sometimes have demon incursions, I don't blame them for wanting to look me up."

"Yeah. I wish they’d retire and take up painting, kidnapping people can’t even be that fun, can it?"

"I guess maybe it can if you're a demon! Are there like, any of them in jail that people can talk to and research?"

"Ehhh... not in jail but people talk to them for international relations stuff sometimes."

"Whoa, diplomat demons. Are there like, recordings of those meetings or anything?"

"I think so."

"Cool. I mean, probably awful on the object level, but fascinating."

"Better than when we can’t get them to the table, I think."

"I'd certainly hope so. I'll have to look that up, maybe after this."

"You planning on going into foreign relations someday?"

"Maybe! I don't think I'm a diplomat but I'd at least be interested in looking into the strategy involved."

"Cool! I avoid that side of things, personally, I do research into soul annihilation."

"Is that a thing?"

"Not yet! But it might be useful to be able to kill demons."

"I guess, if they're hard to hold prisoner."

"Almost impossible."

"Figures."

"But hey, there’s dancing."

"Yeah." She polishes off her juice in time to join the next one.

This one’s done in couples. He invites her to dance it with him.

Sure! Whee!

He has practice guiding new dancers and does his best to help.

There’s a twirl.