"I know right? Timothy and I were up in Ganymede trying to help the prisoners - they gag the demons, so they go like sixty or seventy years without talking - and people commented that he looked like the head of the Elf diplomatic mission. They're the same except Timothy's not as Elfy, obviously."

"What are Elves like?"

"Uh, really patient with not much sense of time, which is annoying, they'll be like 'that's urgent, I'll see to it within ten years!' There's an Elf Miranda and she's not like that because Mirandas are great. They sing, all the time, like if you're just kind of wondering where an Elf is they're practically guaranteed to be outside singing. They're all super pretty. The Elf me's smarter than me, it's sort of upsetting but I figure I'll catch up eventually."

"They sound kind of intimidating."

"Yeah. Well, being the royal family also probably contributes to that, they can just be casually like 'oh, yeah, that's a problem, I'll ban it.' Like, I wish politics worked like that here. If you ever wanna meet some I could probably arrange it."

"Do they need humans for anything, I clearly don't have a summoning career ahead of me."

"Was the written test too hard or just not what you wanted to be doing with your life?"

"Ugh, it's, I don't like the whole thing of being a summoner and they don't police unlicensed summoning much anyway."

"I bet they could use humans on Godspring to help run the humanitarian dots - they're run by Elves, but Godspring's all human locals and Elves are not always the best at helping humans - and it even involves some summoning but it's different."

"I bet they don't speak French there."

"They do not. I totally debated saying 'you could daevafy and have a local summon you and get it that way' but then I realized it'd be stupid for you to take my word for it that it works that way. Even though it does."

"It'd really freak out Maman."

"Yeah. Really freaked out my family. And Miranda, she found my body."

"Way to impress a girl."

He shivers and then giggles weakly. "It was awful for the first few months. Now it's sort of okay but sometimes people'll say 'it should go back to Hell where it belongs', or whatever, and I just wish I was alive again. I'd still want to be a demon eventually but it coulda been at ninety."

"You usually seem pretty, I dunno, upbeat, on your channel..."

"People don't like depressing stuff. Angry is okay sometimes, people were pretty sympathetic about the time I got locked in a closet until my family rescued me, but sad all the time over stuff that happened a long time ago would just be boring. And I'm not usually sad. Most of the people I'm around don't call me 'it' or treat me like a monster."

"They sound pretty cool."

"You think Elves would be even more scared of demons than humans, what with the war, but they aren't at all. I guess having a Timothy as your crown prince would help with that."

"The war?"

"Uh. There was a war going on between a couple Elf worlds when they accidentally summoned someone and then learned about summoning. And a planet got holed, during the war. Elves are immortal so they're all back alive but, like, still."

"...shit."

"Yeah. There was a war crimes trial, Michael and Timothy went."

"What'd they sentence the summoner to?"

"The summoner was like a six year old who drew the circle by accident."