Elsewhere:
Maitimo wakes up.
The room is littered with forensic conjurations of people and notes and wands and books and planets. In the room is Ms. Chua, and a black-winged demon. Looks too straightforwardly Asian to be naturally occurring.
Elsewhere:
Maitimo wakes up.
The room is littered with forensic conjurations of people and notes and wands and books and planets. In the room is Ms. Chua, and a black-winged demon. Looks too straightforwardly Asian to be naturally occurring.
"Why do you think that? Is she usually good at things requiring a minute's sustained attention?"
"She's such a clever little girl. So smart. Aren't you!"
"Yah!"
"So think real hard about getting rid of that demon!"
"Yah!"
"I think the dots they have them wait until they're four, and maybe they have to hold a button down for one minute too, to show they understand the idea..."
"I'm sorry. Sometimes she has a better attention span after her nap. I'm just not - the demon came by and gave us a ton of things and asked if we had any kids, the demon brought his kid - but she had a fever, so -"
"It's okay. Do you think you could get her to agree to a task so I don't have to sit here until she's got it?"
"Uh - maybe - I'm not sure how that part works, he explained it but he said it wasn't important as long as she could send you back."
"It's not important for the immortality it's important for me to be allowed to leave the circle. We could agree, say, that I make you things you want and can also make myself things for convenience while I'm stuck here, and in exchange you pay me by, I don't know, telling me a good place to go sightseeing."
"It doesn't have to be that, it can kind of be anything. Shouldn't promise something you don't have, that's not safe, but otherwise you're fine."
"Sure, I will trade you a cup of soup for the task I outlined, now she has to say 'yes' or 'deal' or 'okay' or something..."
"Vissi darling, tell the demon okay."
"No, demon go home!"
"The demon can go home if you concentrate, but for the meantime tell him it's okay if he makes stuff."
"Okay!"
"I think we're good for now, the other demon made us a lot of stuff." She gets him a cup of soup.
He can write Bright an annoyed note observing that lots of daeva would be provocable under this particular set of circumstances.
He can spy on the weird cult in Canada some more. What exactly were they chanting in bad Sanskrit, how long have most of the members been members, how often do they summon daeva...