"Is dating a euphemism?"

"Uh, Michael told Amriac that she could have whatever she wanted from him - which is legitimately a stupid thing to do, don't do that, you don't have to gag us but that's dumb - but he seems to be extremely happy about that life choice of his so. Timothy - like, that is both the kind of thing Timothy would do if he needed to and the kind of thing he would not give any outward indication he was doing, so I can't go off 'he seems to be happy', but Cam's a Miranda so no."

"...a Miranda?"

"Uh. Secret knowledge about the multiverse, don't go posting it online or whatever... some universes have the same people in them. I mean, like, look alike, sound alike, just the same people in different circumstances. And once we noticed that then we realized they don't always look alike, either. The Elves have this thing that can identify 'em. So Miranda, the girl I like, is an alternate universe version of Cam, the demon dating Timothy, and Miranda wouldn't, like, arrange for people to pay her with sex and pretend they're not doing that, so neither would Cam. It sounds crazy until you see alternates of people together and then it's really noticeable."

"It does sound weird. ...so if she likes you too you and him will be dating the same person?"

" - alternate universe versions, yeah. It's a little weird but I liked Miranda way before Timothy met Cam and I think Timothy got with Cam before we learned about it."

"That's a weird coincidence."

"Yeah. I mean, Miranda and her alts are really amazing so it's not surprising that we'd both like one but it's a weird coincidence that we met them at all. - if you want to see the alts thing I could make you pictures of my family and pictures of the royal family of this one Elf kingdom, they're our alts. They look like us except Elves."

"Ooh, sure."

Picture of his family! Picture of the Elves at comparable ages, and then pictures of the Elves today!

"Weeeeird."

"I know right? Timothy and I were up in Ganymede trying to help the prisoners - they gag the demons, so they go like sixty or seventy years without talking - and people commented that he looked like the head of the Elf diplomatic mission. They're the same except Timothy's not as Elfy, obviously."

"What are Elves like?"

"Uh, really patient with not much sense of time, which is annoying, they'll be like 'that's urgent, I'll see to it within ten years!' There's an Elf Miranda and she's not like that because Mirandas are great. They sing, all the time, like if you're just kind of wondering where an Elf is they're practically guaranteed to be outside singing. They're all super pretty. The Elf me's smarter than me, it's sort of upsetting but I figure I'll catch up eventually."

"They sound kind of intimidating."

"Yeah. Well, being the royal family also probably contributes to that, they can just be casually like 'oh, yeah, that's a problem, I'll ban it.' Like, I wish politics worked like that here. If you ever wanna meet some I could probably arrange it."

"Do they need humans for anything, I clearly don't have a summoning career ahead of me."

"Was the written test too hard or just not what you wanted to be doing with your life?"

"Ugh, it's, I don't like the whole thing of being a summoner and they don't police unlicensed summoning much anyway."

"I bet they could use humans on Godspring to help run the humanitarian dots - they're run by Elves, but Godspring's all human locals and Elves are not always the best at helping humans - and it even involves some summoning but it's different."

"I bet they don't speak French there."

"They do not. I totally debated saying 'you could daevafy and have a local summon you and get it that way' but then I realized it'd be stupid for you to take my word for it that it works that way. Even though it does."

"It'd really freak out Maman."

"Yeah. Really freaked out my family. And Miranda, she found my body."

"Way to impress a girl."