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A sewage pipe burst in Sahan Imsel's apartment during the storm. His bedroom is fine, but the kitchen and dining room are a total loss unless he wants to spend more than the furniture's worth on cleaning it. He sends the landlord a succession of angry emails and then heads down to the property manager's office to complain in person, and eventually they get a cleanup crew to dispose of everything and reimburse him for the furniture and put in a work order for the sewage pipe. He has to stay at home until the reds show up, and they don't even have the decency to be on time. He paces. 

 

He opens the closet door and blinks. 

This is not his closet.

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"Yes, well, you're an extrovert."

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"You don't win points for your prisons meeting some objective standard of niceness if a substantial chunk of the population you're storing there would for reasons related to the conditions rather be literally tortured."

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"I'm not defending the gag, but they're not doing it specifically to be dicks."

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"I know." Sigh. "They're not, like, prohibiting summoning demons at all or anything?"

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"No. But they have my name and they're keeping an eye out for any circles for me."

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" - are they worried people'll try to summon you in particular for murders they want carried out?"

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"No, that they'd summon me unsafely or even just prevent me from being tried and penned up in Ganymede."

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"Well. Current summoner is an Elf, right, they won't die."

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"Might dismiss me when somebody shows up on the planet where I stashed him to fetch the people there and he finds out what happened."

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"Do you object to having Maitimo tell him not to -"

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Sigh. "It might not even work. He's a kid, I'm not sure 'don't want that demon gone for a minute all in a row' is an actionable instruction."

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"What if you get a door to your house in Hell, have someone hold it, get dismissed and come back through..."

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"Dunno. Might work."

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Amentans cleared for a Revelation colony planet are assembled. They have a fairy escort a demon out to past Neptune and a demon make a lightleaper there and they start sending small groups of people.

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It takes Revelation twelve hours to notice in a media-detectable way and then they are so excited!!! There is a way to travel!!!

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Are people bothering the shuttling colonists.

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Some people do in fact figure out where they are and attempt to accost some.

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At the house in Forks a blue-haired man opens the door and says in adequate English - "Ah. Hello."

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"- hi! Welcome to Earth!"

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"Thank you! I'm Isilme Asa. Can I help you?"

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"I'm Plum Kaepernick with Celestial News and I'd just love to sit down with you and any other Amentans who are available right now and have a chat!"

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"Not too many of us have picked up a local language but I'd be happy to talk with you! Come on in."

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In goes Plum Kaepernick, looking around in fascination.

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They've remodeled to move people through it more easily but it's not a sparkling example of Amentan interior decorating or anything. Colorful-haired people wave. Blue pulls out two chairs.

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And she has questions! "So when did you all get here?"

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