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.
"Looser than that, Elves let us talk. But Ganymede approved the binding apart from the lack of gag, which they thought was very dangerous."
"If somebody holes a planet I don't think it's letting 'em talk you wanna worry about."
"You'd think. The funny thing is that Elves, unlike humans, actually do have souls, though it wouldn't really be a thing of talking them out of them."
"They have these chips in their heads that - back up their brains to a computer, basically. If they die you can resurrect them from the chips, and if demons put a body around a chip it works okay. We can't make the chips, of course, since we can't make minds. But someone could steal one and then have an Elf to hurt and kill and resurrect and so on, if they were a shitty person."
"Yeah. Every once in a while I check to make sure there are no chips in Hell because if there were I could go find 'em and get them out. There aren't so far."
The demon goes to Hell.
The other circles open for him include one with a gag; is it otherwise terrible or does it just have a gag.
Tedious blog posts about every fucking thing from the shape of teabags to her neighbor's annoying mullberry tree to her grandchildren's ungrateful behavior to, yep, irresponsible summoning behavior. Several crochet patterns.
Charming. Well, he can't take circles for him until she gives up.
He could take random ones, with little audio player behind his ear to hopefully screen the gagged ones. He makes a note he's doing that.
It takes a while to catch one; they feel completely different and go fast.
...the audio recorder does not screen for gagged ones.
"...you're a kid," says the summoner.
He is an annoyed kid trying to feel pleased about falsifying a theory. "Gags are really annoying," says the audio player, "and it's safer to summon demons without them. Gags are really annoying and it's safer to summon demons without them."