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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
"They don't, angels are better for most things you'd need to do, the emergency I got summoned to angels would probably still have been better but they didn't have a list of people with qualifications or time to wait for one. But we can do a fair bit if you're in a bind."
"Uh, one of the things I was learning how to do was safely administer drugs, the New Guinea summons there were people trapped under a building and we did amputations and replacements - which sucks but it works - blood transfusions you have to know exactly what you're doing, same with patching wounds, but it's possible -"
"The amputations were really easy, I didn't need to know anything at all about what I was doing for that. Just - that person should have a leg now. And I couldn't talk so I couldn't offer to give them painkillers first."
"Yeah. That's why I wanted to learn it, for the next time, so that if they did let me talk I could be sure I knew what to do -"
alicornucopia
"We don't think anybody'll get hurt at this protest but if they did what do I need to do so you can do stuff?"
"You could just say 'help them and I'll tell you my favorite book', that counts as renegotiating and should mean that medical aid is sufficiently task-relevant presuming it's allowed by the binding at all -"
"'A book you like' works fine too. Lying to me about your favorite book would mean we had to renegotiate it again for me to go home but I don't actually know what would happen if you just had several favorites and had to pick one, I really doubt that'd be a problem."
alicornucopia
The protest is peaceful start to finish, although it does divert some ground traffic and they get yelled at about that. More signs include "Way To Kill Half Revelation's Efficiency Gains" and "If The Binding's Broken A Babysitter Won't Fix It" and "Recall Trausch! Vote Krier!".
alicornucopia
His summoner tells him that he's in Luxembourg ("is that weird not knowing where you are?") and they are having this protest now because an election's coming up and the incumbent is very much in favor of escort laws, which are up for reexamination in the EU in a few months.
"Uh, don't know - I really don't know how elections get conducted these days - pay a fairy to fly campaigners around to talk to people? Make you leaflets? Save people grocery trips?"