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The Valar announce that they've done as much as they can in Singularity (they can't bring back peoples' babies in that critical period either, but they can get them earlier versions) and are setting up portals between there and Sanity as soon as they are confident they've cleaned up the plague. A bunch of Elf architects have this wild idea for a fivedimensional city where alternating intersections are interdimensional portals between various Valinors and they get eagerly to setting it up.
dismissal
too-early-and-too-late
Okay. I promised people I'd do that. I'll be back if I get the sense someone's inclined to look, or tomorrow at the latest. Kiss. Mingling can relay for you wherever we are.
too-early-and-too-late
Even if you announced you were breaking up with me I would stay here until everyone who had friends they wanted summoned got to meet their friends. As it stands I'm here as long as you want me.
from_scratch
I love you. However, consider you could maybe legitimately acquire a summoning license from one of the more lenient jurisdictions with relevant reciprocity policies.
too-early-and-too-late
That'd probably let me help more people, yeah. Do you happen to know the relevant jurisdictions or how to look them up -
from_scratch
At a guess Federated Stations - satellites of the Earth pretending to be a polity together - will have a written test and check that you can bring a properly bound daeva to your test site and that's probably easiest.
too-early-and-too-late
Okay. Minor, tell them not to dismiss you yet, I actually don't want to do bare fairy interplanetary travel.
He summons another fairy. He completes the written test on the way there.
through-the-free-fall
"This is a vital strategic secret, shouldn't leave this room, and more urgently should not be committed to recorded form under any circumstances, do you know a location where you can ensure that?"
from_scratch
"We could go for a walk, have our environment suits conjured fresh by the staff demon so they're clean, if it's so important," smiles the President.
from_scratch
So they go to the staff demon and receive fresh environment suits and go out for a stroll in the unterraformed redness of Mars. "What's on your mind?"
through-the-free-fall
"Demons can make Elves. This was discovered during the war; it is very important that it not become widely known in Hell. The backup chips in our brains don't work if they make them naively, the same as if they tried to make a human; but if you copy the data to a fresh chip, which is easy to learn how to do, then you can make a body around it just fine."
through-the-free-fall
"Yes. You recently arrested the demon who was involved in our war, Campbell Swan. The, ah, natural defense in the murder trial he is facing would be that he brought the people back to life afterwards, which he did. It seems to me that it would be a serious miscarriage of justice to try to conduct a murder trial without mentioning that the victims are alive and well, but it is also not an option to commit to the record of a trial that will doubtless attract a lot of interest that this is a thing demons can do."
from_scratch
"By 'you' I assume you mean the Ganymede Circling Police? Mars subscribes but does not administer."
through-the-free-fall
"Yes. I don't know how long they've had a circle out for him but he answered it this morning. It was my hope that Mars would be equipped to help me navigate this while sharing the sensitive information as minimally as possible."
from_scratch
"Inconveniently I am away from my computer and cannot look up whether that is even his only charge."