The child-adopting demons are so happy about their child adopting prospects!

Awesome, so it's no trouble if in addition to resupplying they are responsible for paying security fairies when they drop by the dots?

Sure, that's easy, fairies can't want that much stuff!

He should probably have someone local accompany them to the orphanages to pick up on things he might miss; he drops Liatsi an update requesting to be put in touch with someone who can do that.

Liatsi has a recommendation for him promptly.

Then the supply demons can adopt children now, how about.

Oh boy oh boy!

The children detect the presence of rich adoptive winged people and they get very competitive very fast. The demons don't totally know how to deal. Liatsi's representative finesses assistance from the orphanage workers and gets everything more orderly and assigns the demons who want babies babies and sets up less chaotic interviews for demons who want older kids and makes sure to assess their interest in taking sibling groups before letting them meet any.

Oh no oh no children being competitive over the possibility of good homes is really upsetting he reminds himself it would not be good to just have Elves adopt the rest, he has enough Elves for here but it would take practically all of the attention of practically everyone in Valinor interested in helping with the multiverse and there are so many worlds in just as much need. He does ask Liatsi's representative if there are material goods the orphanage would benefit from.

The representative goes and assesses that and comes back with a list. It's sort of a pathetic list - blankets and toys and food -

Maybe in addition to judging him for Cir Liatsi was judging him in knowledge of what else that thirty million riaxi could buy. He finds a demon who has gotten settled and whose baby is sleeping and shows her the list.

"I'll come back and get another baby when I'm used to this one," she says, making the stuff.

"I've been weighing asking my fork to take a couple. Don't overstretch yourself or anything. There's - gonna be need for a long time..."

Nod.

When everyone has the kids they want they can all get situated and told which dots they are supplying and who to write with any problems and he imagines they might be tempted to make their kids summoners at home rather than take them to the dots - "which is fine, but use the circle I used to grab you, just switch out the name. We're going to be conjuring for unsafe circles made on this planet since the summoning rollout and even if you're having them grab a friend of yours we want it done safely."

That is fine with the demons!

Great! He writes a note asking for the door again; he goes back through.

He looks very, very sad.

Cir rather pounces on him. "Maitimo what's wrong -"

Hug. "Uh, took the demons to the orphanages. Liatsi's liason was really helpful and everything is all set now but - the poor children, and that was just one orphanage -"

Hug hug hug. "They're really crowded and orphan-housing doesn't generate a lot of revenue."

"The state should fund it, why even have a state otherwise - we could adopt them all, that's the thing, it would be the wrong use of our resources but we could give every child on the planet a home -"

"More daeva, or...?"

"I don't know that there are that many daeva equipped to be good parents. I'm confident in the ones we picked and maybe we could pause the place and give enough other interested ones parenting classes but daeva as a whole aren't used to being around fragile people or being responsible for anyone else's needs. I could just post video of the orphanage back in Valinor and get millions of people who've already parented and would be wholly adequate but there are a lot of worlds and Elves who are parenting won't do anything else - I was staring at the kids and thinking 'and who am I to decide' but it is exactly my job to decide -"

Squeeze. "I'm not totally sure Elves would be very good at human children."

"They would have some serious drawbacks but no one'd want for anything and I do think they'd mostly learn. Elf children aren't all little angels, we just take so long to grow up that miscreant adults are vanishingly rare."

Nod.