" - with all due respect that would be a catastrophe here."

"Ah-huh."

"If you want to work with a different government we can send them but you can't - just - there'd be a hundred million people dead the first day -"

"Because you'd all panic about reds who could go around the world in a second if they summoned a fairy?"

"And because at least one person in a million would assassinate a politician given the chance and so every country would lose its entire government just as there's a major pollution crisis and all state secrets would leak to everyone and lots of them include the locations of agents who'd be executed if caught and some of them are more than enough to start a war. But the reds are a major consideration, yes."

"Summoning doesn't make it that trivial to assassinate people. You have to find a willing assassin."

"Or someone willing to make you a box without asking what's in it and the knowledge of what should be in it."

"I'm not sure what you're envisioning here; you'd have to have a demon copy something with an innocuous name for that to get anything very dangerous."

"Off the top of my head if I wanted to kill someone I would acquire the things I needed at home, leave them in a bag at home, go to a secure facility somewhere, ask for a copy of the shopping bag in my closet, set it and leave before it exploded."

"You would have to go through a few demons before you got one who didn't want to know why it was faster to summon a demon than summon a fairy and go home and get it. Also you have to give daeva things to get things and demons are hard to pay."

"Because the line to get into this place is an hour long, obviously. How're demons traditionally paid -"

"And your demon says 'so give the fairy the keys'. Demons are, obviously, hard to pay. People come up with various intangibles. Alien animals will work for a while, we're not good at animals."

"They can go to the theatre - if any of them want kids we could let them adopt. What's a key, my house opens to my fingerprint."

"The demons will not be able to take the children home. They will, however, be able to make your finger."

"But as long as the fairy can't that's a perfectly good reason not to have summoned one. They could stay here and raise the kids, right?"

"You'd get some takers. It's a good idea to pay daeva in advance and that would be hard in line for something."

Nod. "Do demons want, hmm, sex, massages, therapy, dancing lessons, music lessons, art commissions..."

"The first is highly traditional, the latter is a great idea, the middle ones might find takers."

"Then I bet we'll make it work. What skillsets are involved in summoning safely and effectively?"

"...you'd want like a whole textbook." Sighhhhhhh.

" - just to figure out what caste it is, not to learn how to do it."

"...based on my reading I guess yellow, if you insist, but you're turning down a lot of the advantages if you don't let random people summon their own."

"We can experiment with that on the moon or something, see what the rate of mistakes looks like before we scale up access."

"A moon will not meaningfully segregate a badly summoned fairy or demon."

"On a colony planet, then. Thank you."