Nod. "I'm surprised they're not better about demons, if they've broadly got 'people who can't talk' worked out."

"Oh, we can talk, it's just that we use this power for evil."

"If we just get some demons to do the talk show circuit what happens -"

"You get weird mail, probably? I don't think that's illegal. Maybe you have to warn for it."

"I might suggest to my people there that they figure out demon acceptance, it'll increase the share of demons taking summons."

"Yep. A lot of demons try it for a change of pace and then think it's not worth it, you'd get more sticking around that way."

"I will see what I can do." 

"Good luck!"

"Thank you! Such a nice world, it's fun to have work that amounts to polishing."

"I bet!"

He writes some emails, smiling and occasionally glancing at Cam or at Cam's tail.

...swish.

Giggle. More emails.

Cam starts designing a sampler box.

"So," says Aitim when he's done, "my read is that I could think of some more delight to express about your Revelation habits and ask about a room here and we would have a marvelous time and yet somehow this would make it less likely we'd end up involved and co-conspiring in the adorable fashion of Mitros and Iobel to break summoning to Warp once we can."

"- uh. Yeah, I guess? How do you do that?"

"I thought it was partially my education but apparently Mitros can do it too so maybe it's - some definition of 'innate' that encompasses being three different species? Anyway, it's not interpersonal omniscience and I can't actually puzzle out why this is true."

"It took me a few decades to get around to the idea of casual sex being a thing I might do at all and it involves some - curation of feelings? Which would not be literally irreversible but still."

"That makes sense," he says with some satisfaction. "You're an almost uniquely delightful person to figure out, you know, because of the deliberateness about what you're feeling and thinking."

"It's weird that you can get results without the path to them but still observe how pathy it is!"

"I can tell, hmm, that this would be an endorsed result you'd probably have insight into? As compared to 'you'll regret it for reasons you can't pin down' or something, sometimes I notice that about someone and it's very different."

"You," accuses Cam, "are clearly a freak of nature."

"Runs in the family."

"Fair enough."

"What's your template's excuse?"