"Thank you."

"Sure." Wing-flutter. "When's the ceremony?"

"Tentatively in three weeks; is that enough time? It wouldn't be if you had to actually assemble the fireworks, but..."

"Yeah, that's no problem, there're catalogues of fireworks and I don't have to assemble them, or launch them, or anything."

"Marvelous. I was planning to trade you a small sculpture - I understand you could just reproduce the physical object, but it's an original - but I can adjust that if you have another idea you'd prefer."

"That works. You probably won't get too far paying demons in art in general, though. Might get away with it for a while since they don't know your world exists and won't have conjured all its stuff to play with already."

"Yes, that's understood; it's mostly to have something to visibly hand over without giving anyone the impression that daeva will want pears or candles or anything."

Nod. "Haven't heard of a public event like this before, it's a cool idea. Are people going to be summoning at home - because even without misapprehensions about candles that can get -"

"Not at first. We're going to see how the local personnel trained by our Elf friends do with the various safety precautions, first. If they have much error rate it won't be safe to offer unsupervised summoning to the general population, which would be less filtered."

"Smart. That's the delay on rollout in my home, too - summoning works better where people are less desperate and more educated, but they also need it less."

"Yes, I'm expecting literacy rates to be a problem now but less so in ten to fifteen years."

"And by then you might not need to do conventional summoning much, people can just bring back their relatives."

"That too. We're going to prioritize the old and sick in the initial stages when there's a run on the locations."

"All right. Is this the country Cir and Ruviri're from?"

"If the Cir you know is Prince Nelyafinwë's redmage, yes; this is Cefax."

"All right. I'll let you know when I've got fireworks, shall I?"

"How should I expect to receive the message?"

"Prince Nelyafinwë's going to be in this world the next while, right?"

"Yes."

"So he can forward one. Or you can just leave a circle open until I'm of a mind to take it, if that's easier."

"I feel like that would set a bad precedent if anyone noticed its presence; forwarding suits."

"All right. Take care."

"Thank you again."

Dismiss dismiss.

Demon vanishes. Prince Nelyafinwë is frowning distractedly and has been since his redmage was mentioned. "I'll let you know when I hear from him."

"Thank you. Is something the matter?"