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"Nah, we think it goes off - personality, or suitedness to the magic, something like that."

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"Huh."

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"Not public because no one lets us talk, but it'll probably get out sooner or later."

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"Angels and fairies talk."

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"And would've had a harder time verifying that was what was going on, because demons figured it out by forensic conjuring, and distributing the news once they figured it out, because everyone can't make themselves the news. Some of them know. Heard of a fairy who tried to tell summoners and got accused of suicide-baiting -"

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"...yeah, guess it'd kinda sound like that, if I heard it set up the wrong way."

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"Little bit. I think some of the daeva accused of murder on Ganymede say 'but she's fine, she went to Heaven' but that doesn't get taken very seriously either."

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Snort. "Bet not."

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"And 'but she's fine, she went to Hell' goes over even worse. I've been trying to explain to people that demons can't even take souls and some people decided I was just saying that as part of a very clever long-term scheme to convince people not to be sufficiently wary so demons could take more souls."

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"If this conversation ends in you asking for my soul I'm gonna be real annoyed."

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"Not to make too fine a point of it or anything but if I wanted it -"

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"Yeah, exactly, pointless extra rigmarole, you coulda had it."

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"...and that's why you'd be annoyed? Because of the rigmarole? Demons can't take souls. I'm here because I wanted you all to have a nice house away from stupid governments that doesn't explode at all."

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"It's nice of you."

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Shrug. "Take care."

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"Thanks."

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Most of the wizards are hanging out in Milliways racing rocks around mazes on the table.

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He's lost the magic a couple times over the last couple months but he has it now; he sits down with them.

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Karen's hunk of onyx is doing pretty well, till she notices Minor and it makes a wrong turn.

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"Hey!" he says when the game ends. "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you."

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"It's okay."

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"What've you been up to?"

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"Uh, more of the future-year wizarding world books research, seeing which of the things work."

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"Cool. Is everything okay?"

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