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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
alicornucopia
She looks over her shoulder. "Oh! I was beginning to imagine you'd never show! Now you, young man, have been very irresponsible with those dragons, I know you just get little bites and heal up in a hot second but the boys and girls and whatnots watching you aren't so lucky and they're going to go up to strange dogs or worse go catch themselves alligators or ask a demon for a tyrannosaur egg and try to keep the dinosaur as a pet and next thing you know some little elementary schooler is waiting in line for the medical angels to rebuild their hand or worse because you make it look like such fun to play with aggressive strong animals and you don't mind getting chomped so why should they? And you ought to have known better by your age -"
She goes on like that.
alicornucopia
She will add a fifteen minute digression about displaying respectful attention when your elders tell you that you've gone wrong, then.
It's almost as bad as History of Magic. ...except probably she won't actually beat him for not listening. Going back to Hazel is going to be so weird.
alicornucopia
And when she is out of things to say, she goes and gets him a book of crochet patterns and puts it in his hands and tells him to make his little girlfriend something nice and then she dismisses him.
- that's almost endearing. He writes Timothy to say he's okay and didn't talk at all. He gets a video of demons flying around a crowded cityscape in Hell.
- he's actually not that far from where Celendra and Olivia live, he writes them asking if they'd mind if he dropped by.
alicornucopia
The TV is on and Olivia is drinking juice and watching cartoon characters. Celendra lets him in.
"It's how the Elves handle daeva who've killed people or whatever. Summons with a really loose binding that just prohibits leaving Hell, and then you walk through a door and go home. Could do it without the binding, for you two, the point is while you're on a summons you won't feel other ones."
alicornucopia
"I'd like that - Olivia and I haven't talked about her going back, though, if people in the human world knew..."
"Then maybe the best arrangement would be shared custody somewhere that's less horrible to demons than Revelation - uh, the human world. It's - up to Olivia, but - I would never raise a demon child there."