"Reds could break the binding, refuse to send the daeva home..."

"Killing the summoner dismisses their daeva. I mean, this would still be an atrocity, going through everybody like that, but if you do turn into daeva it would be the kind of atrocity where nobody ceases to exist."

"Just ceases to be able to have children."

"This looms larger for you. Demons can do embryos, if they'd really be treated appropriately after going through this shitshow they could find a surrogate unless that's also really hard for some reason for you."

"It's good to have in mind as a last resort but it'd be a horribly ugly one. - I should check if it even works. Then if it does we can get deeper into planning."

Nod.

"Anything else first?"

"If turning into daeva works for you it probably works for everybody from your world. That's got - implications."

"Do we have a population estimate?"

"There are hundreds of species in your galaxy alone."

" - so really what we should do is keep my universe paused if the daeva thing does work on us. Until we've got lots more resources."

"Maybe, yeah."

"I'd want to bring some more people through here."

"Anybody I, uh, know?"

"Well, if Elves have bizarrely specific sexual preferences I assume Maitimo isn't married to my husband."

"If your husband is your half-cousin, they broke up before I arrived and went around radiating drama and trusting Elf heteronormativity goggles to prevent anyone from noticing."

"'heteronormativity'," he repeats bemusedly. "What a bizarre taboo. Poor gay Elves."

"Used to be they could go get a Vala to straighten them."

"And Maitimo didn't do that? I'd definitely do that - maybe not if the only social problem I needed leverage in order to work on was the homosexuality thing and everything else was great."

"Valinor was very nice in many ways. We didn't really talk about it, I don't know."

"Right, sorry. Okay, I'm going to go get this man to summon and then wait until he's dead and then we'll have an answer and can plan from there."

"What's he in for?"

"Punched someone in a bar fight he didn't start. She hit a corner badly when she fell, died."

"Wow."

"- I'm not sure what part of that is surprising."