"Yeah. I think the vlog would be the wrong way to bring it to peoples' attention and I've kind of only got the one tool - you know politicians, right, Maitimo -"

"I have in fact in my time become acquainted with a politician or two."

"We don't even have politicians. So many things we don't have!"

"You can make it without politicians at least until you have, like, the wheel."

"You can make it without politicians a lot longer than that, Hell doesn't have any. It has neighborhood associations, I guess. Some people take them very seriously."

"I don't know what those are!"

"So admittedly the longest I've spent in Hell without getting impatient and taking a summons was eight hours? Not counting the time when I hid in my room and did all of med school in one shot. But, like, you might have preferences about how loud your neighbors are, or what your neighborhood looks like, or how frequently someone sets off a nuclear bomb because it's expressive of their feelings. And you might want to live with other people who share your preferences, and you might write up a charter describing what you guys want your neighborhood to be like, and then if you cared about it waaaay too much it might get a little out of hand and end up eight hundred pages long with a mailing list with several gigabytes of text arguments about the meaning of the eight hundred pages. I see why Cam got his own gravity well."

"...so it's like arguing about the weather, but more so."

"- arguing about the weather - oh, right, you guys can control the weather. Yeah. Like that."

"When did you do all of med school in one shot?"

"New Guinea."

"- New Guinea?" says Niari.

" - uh, I was taking randoms and this woman says 'whatever you want to put peoples' limbs back on before they bleed out so of course I said yes and their building had blown up and they didn't have a list of medical angels or time to wait for 'em so she just cut them free of the building with a hacksaw and I knew how to do anaesthetic by then but of course I couldn't say so and if I'd finished med school I'd have known how to do the amputations cleanly too - and people died - before I arrived, no one died once I took the summons, but still - and once I got back to Hell I hid in my room and did med school and had Cam check my work remotely - so if it ever happened again and the binding were looser I could actually help, because I could never ever live with myself if people died because I hadn't learned fast enough -"

"This doesn't seem healthy," says Niari.

"Well, now I've finished med school."

"There are so many things I know nothing about because I am four years old from a Stone Age culture, I'm going to go back to my reading list," Tireh says.

"I know that feeling," he says sympathetically. "You'll catch up."

"You were older than any member of my species has ever been and from the Industrial Revolution!"

"There's not much to catch up on between where you started and 1802. Most of the things humans did between the Stone Age and 1802 were bad ideas. Religion: don't bother. Crusades: super don't bother. Colonialism: ehhh. I hear good things about metalworking but then -" he makes a pretty gold goblet in midair and catches it - "uh, you're not likely to actually need it."

"I'm not sure I want us to just have stuff appear and not know how we'd go about making it by not-appearing!"

"It might be kind of hard to avoid? Like, I bet no one in Revelation knows how to make a computer. Non-demonically, I mean. There are people who know very detailed pieces, but the whole thing?"

"Really? That's weird."

"Specialization. It's very important. - and had been thought of by 1802 so I guess that disproves my earlier argument."

"Also, like, this morning I didn't know what shoes were, or that you could start fires by means other than songburning a little lightning to make tinder catch."

"Okay, fair, I will concede that shoes are a good idea."