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.
He thought they weren't letting kids summon until they were older than that but maybe they're small for their age. "Hi, can I get you anything?"
The toddler giggles and claps her hands. Toddler's mom says, "Okay, send him back now!"
Clapping.
"C'mon, darling!"
...This isn't a dot and the circle is paper.
"A demon made the circle for us - Vissi's not really up to traveling and we're kind of out of the way." She pats the toddler. "Concentrate real hard, Vissi!"
"I'm sorry this is taking so long. I think she'll get it soon enough."
"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!"
Vissi thinks real hard, then goes up to him and shoves him. "Go 'way!"
"Go go go go! Noooo demon in house." Shove shove.
"You have to think him gone, darling."
"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."