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"Minor's been gone a while," he says to Amriac the next day, "want to make sure he's okay?"

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"'Kay." Check. "In a circle."

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"Well, he's in it, but maybe not..." She gets the circle itself, squints at the binding. "Dang."

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"Uh, whoever wrote this is an asshole? Lookit."

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He looks. "What the fuck. Yes. Uh, where are they -"

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"Uh," check, "I think that's Imbrium City," more surroundings, "yep."

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"If we write the police will they take care of it? That's not allowed, right?"

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"Why would I know?"

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He writes Cam. Hey, some asshole summoned Minor and isn't letting him go, aren't there laws about that?

"I should go make a video for him, he'd like that. This is very dramatic, it'll get his audience all worked up."

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"Aw, they'll be all worried."

Cam's response says that it depends on location but if you keep a daeva without negotiating a task for more than a week and the daeva cannot (or does not) express satisfaction with the taskless arrangement yeah you can get in trouble.

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The location is Imbrium City and a week is kind of a long time under that obnoxious binding. 

Minor is missing! the video is titled. "Minor took a summons a couple days ago and he hasn't come home. I was wondering what sort of project would take that long, so I asked Amriac to check where he was for me - and he's locked up and gagged in a garage somewhere. The law says it's okay to do that to him for up to a week, so there's nothing we can do yet, but we're pretty nervous. Minor's summoner, if you're out there, please let him come home!"

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The commenters are out in force with this news. Apart from the obvious trolls ("lol will that make him stop making these dumb videos?") they are mostly alarmed. Is Minor going to be uncomfortable? Where is the garage? Why does he take summonses from strangers, he's a kid, he shouldn't do that. It's probably an innocent mistake, they probably left the circle there and forgot about it or ran out for coffee and got randomly dead somehow.

What would they do if a week went by and he wasn't home?

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Well, then they could ask the police for help finding his summoner. Minor likes taking summonses; that's how Jurassic Park now has dragons, after all - and he can't tell when he's in Hell whether a summons specifically for him is from his family or someone else.  The garage is in Imbrium City. Could be they just forgot about the circle, but hopefully soon they'll remember it! If the summoner were dead Minor would not be stuck.

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"Would we actually go to the police -"

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"We'd smuggle a soul Elf in and ask him and if he wanted Timothy to make the summoner dismiss him then we'd do that."

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Cam, meanwhile, relays the news to Timothy aboard their lightleaper.

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"- does the binding let him do magic because if so he's totally going to do magic, he'd wait a couple days but he's not the most endlessly patient person and -"

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Cam conjures the circle. "He could do a little magic, not much."

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"Asshole. Who is it -"

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"I really doubt we're going to recognize the mini basement dweller, what are you really looking for?"

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"Published works? Maybe they've commented on the internet explaining why they did it. Or why they'd want to."

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Check.

"...fanfic... comments on fanfic... fanfic... a recipe for popovers did not work well for them, are there lunar gravity instructions... fanfic..."

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Sigh. "If the police'll get him to cut it out we'll go through them. If they won't -"

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