"Would the GCP be on board?"

"I don't know."

He asks Aitim when he next sees him.

" - Amentans will be of the opinion it's not sufficient as a deterrent. I don't know if the GCP will be likeminded but plausibly."

"Amentans would be on board with checking whether it's enough deterrent, right."

"Might have too small a data set. Look, I also think it sounds approximately worse than death but it's not really very many people and it won't happen to Cam."

"Cam's not sure how you plan to pull it off."

"I am not, individually, handling it, but I do trust the people working there."

"Make it work."

"I assure you, I care about him too."

Blue invites a colleague over for dinner. 

Niari would be happy to come over; there are routine fairy shuttles between Earth and Mars.

They have an Amentan style house but the artwork's all Martian. They have a baby with deep blue hair.

"So," she says over dessert. "Did you ever hear the story of how Amenta made contact with aliens and the multiverse?"

"Someone summoned a daeva, didn't they?"

"That's what we're - letting float about - because the truth is weird and has worrying implications. But no, a college student in a small town a hundred miles from Lina opened the door to his closet and found it was a portal. That's the site that's been converted into the transit hub on our end."

"...had he just never opened his closet before -"

"The - location he opened the door to - is called Milliways, and it apparently functions by occasionally making random doors in random universes into access points."

"...that's... uh... how many universes does this imply?"

"They think it's probably finite. Uncountably many, certainly."

"Wow."

"This presents some concerns relevant to work - in particular, how big a scope we want to take on if more of these universes make contact or independently develop summoning - but that we can talk about at work, the thing I wanted to bring to your attention is somewhat more complicated.

We got summoning because when the college student wandered into Milliways he met a demon who had also found an access point."

"...okay."

"The demon is Swan."

"Are you fucking kidding me."

"They can't conjure the place where he's at right now. Because it's a magic interdimensional bar. I've seen him, I didn't realize at the time but he was there when we all transferred worlds. And the house - the house that's the access point to this world - a hundred seventy years ago a human summoner named Campbell Mark Swan lived there. Graduated from high school there, just before Revelation - taught summoning at a university in Washington -"