They want to start him off not speaking lines for a few episodes to ease the kids into it but he will be doing cute helpful things like sneaking Cookie Monster some cookies and duplicating toys that are the subject of arguments between Muppets, then sneaking off going "shhhhh" at the camera. When he starts talking they have a little speech for him about how demons do all kinds of things to help people but nobody wants them to talk. Can he sing?

...that's adorable. He can sing tolerably but not great.

They can get him a vocal coach? They would also be willing to redo this song as a rhythmic spoken word piece.

He'll try it and they can decide if they want to redo it or hire a coach or what.

They decide his voice is adequate but they do want him to practice before they tape that episode.

He is happy to!

They provide their recording schedule.

And he promises to be there.

He makes more videos. He tries to learn to Apparate; he doesn't get anywhere. He checks whether he's still under arrest. He checks the news for more suicides.

Still under arrest. Three more, including an arguable case that might have been accidental but was suspiciously close to the kid's first summon.

"So," he said, "I haven't actually talked at all about whether you should daevafy. That's mostly because people threatened to lock me up and I won't do things under threat, ever. It's really important to me that everyone know they can never, ever get anything they want by threatening me. But now that it's pretty obvious to the Ganymede Idiot Cops that threats seriously didn't work, I can say what I think, and what I think is that you should wait. I wish I was still human. I'd have rights. I could go out in public without worrying that some idiot would try to shoot me and kill innocent people. It would be universally agreed upon that I should be allowed to talk. You're going to get to be a daeva for the rest of forever, you don't have to start right now. If you're in a bad situation, write me and I'll try to fix it. If you have an abusive family, you won't have to go back to them. If you don't think you can do anything useful or cool or interesting with your life while you're still human - you're wrong. There are billions of worlds. There are some of them where, like, 'speaking English and being able to finish summoning circles and knowing what indoor plumbing is' would be super helpful. It's your choice. But if you care what I think, I think you should wait, and I'll give you whatever I can to help make waiting a better option."

Next time he checks his circles are gone.

Then they start coming back.

- weird. GCP internal politics? He goes to Singapore to spy on them.

There are fewer people in the office than there were before. The remaining ones seem overworked. The one Aaron was writing is gone.

- Aaron should write him again.

Hey! My brother Michael's having a coming-of-age party, he said you're invited. Minor noticed his circles went away and then came back, do you know why?

The summoner quit so they had to wreck them and get a different one to replace them. Why am I invited, I've never met your brother Michael.

I told him you're cool.

And here I thought you found me odious.

I don't bother criticizing people who aren't worth it.

Gee thanks. Anyway, I'll pass.

Where're you working now?

I'm not.

Why?

"Reorg".

I didn't mean to get you in trouble.