"Yeah. That's still a problem. But you're not facing down Ganymede while we work on it, okay?"

Nodnod. Sigh. "Should've checked the rate they were doing summons first so I knew how badly the minutes mattered - should've checked if there were already eggs in Hell, too -"

"I would have panicked too. It might turn out to be nothing, maybe they're developed enough by the time the shells harden that they can't actually be made as minds or something, but we don't know."

"Yeah." Sigh. "I would still rather never have killed anyone. Them being back and okay doesn't quite -"

"Yeah. I know."

Minor angles downwards. "So let's try to piece together the adventures of the egg rogue, shall we?"

"Sounds like a plan."

He's making a list when they get back inside. Demons who went to egg world, and subsequent conjurations. A minute-by-minute of egg rogue's travels, so they can determine how often she teleported and whether it seemed to require any preparation and what sorts of trips she'd fly in preference to teleporting. Whether she'd been to dimensions besides Godspring. Whether other inhabitants of her planet had.

These four demons besides Minor have been to egg world. They have made ordinary things like breakfast and computer chips and sofas and letters to their friends ("new summons didn't even offer me anything for my time, it's still really hit and miss"). One of them copied an egg person's jewelry, which may be made out of eggshell but doesn't contain any embryos.

Egg rogue does not teleport frequently and preferred to fly medium sized distances. She takes a lot of notes, or seems to - the paper appears blank or very sparse when conjured. She talked to several people. She has only been home and to Godspring and she's the only egg person who has left home.

"I think it's likelier there's something magic about the paper than that it's that sparse."

"We can conjure the paper, it's the writing we can't get..."

"Okay, something magic about the writing - something's just not adding up -"

"Yeah. We also don't have a good way to get there even if we figure out what's going on, if the sand from Minor's shoes doesn't cut it - I guess the wait time's enough that taking randoms next time they start up could do it but then we can only stay a minute and might not get anything more than sand."

"Could go wearing a sign that says 'what you're doing is incredibly dangerous please hear us out' but only if they summon another demon, last couple have been fairies."

"I do not have enough corpus to even begin to guess how to write that. Who'd the egg rogue summon, maybe hers got it..." Check. Some fairy.

"Could ask that fairy but I don't want people thinking 'oh cool another world' and then mentioning it -"

"Yeah, but that cat may already be out of the bag. Pretty eggs, totally bizarre language, new worlds are still a relatively novel phenomenon and if the fairy thinks she's the first to be there she might want to cash in on talking about it while the getting's good..."

Nod. "So summon her, try to get the language, then what if the next one they summon's not a demon -"

"Harder to get an angel or fairy on board usefully. They can't conjure the newest circle. Might have to let a few more summonses go by before we can get in. If the summoner can't read the sign and the egg rogue is not there, though, that doesn't get us much."

"The egg rogue's drawing them all, if we get it fast enough she might have to be there."

"She can teleport. She doesn't seem to have been teleporting around at home so far, but that could change."

"Leave the sign? Or - is there a loophole in that binding if one happens to be a wizard -"

"The Godspring version hedges that out preemptively just so they don't have to change it after we do Hazel."

"Smart but momentarily inconvenient."

"Yes. Where's your Hell door, is it near your sand or would you have to be dismissed and resummoned again..."