"That'd be nice."

"If your country is nice and liberal and has tractable social problems I bet it'll really cheer Cam up to work with you on them."

"I kind of doubt we are liberal by the standards of future societies, that's usually not how that goes."

"Magic could theoretically displace a lot of advances depending on how it worked but yeah probably not."

"'tractable social problems' sounds promising, though."

"Oh?"

"Uh, schools are expensive, lots of people can't read - healing's expensive, it'd be cheaper if more people could read because they'd be likelier to become spellbinders - waterborne disease is a problem, malaria is a problem, famines are occasionally a problem..."

"Malaria! I know how to fix that one!" Tail wag.

...that's adorable. "- well. That would be great."

"I don't want to leave this bar until someone who can do resurrection walks in but the fix involves releasing a lot of sterile non-biting mosquitoes. I can give them to you all cold and dopey and you can haul them out and let them loose? - you need some coverage, where does this door lead, will I be able to see an appropriate place to make you a shuttle -"

" - no, it's inside a building. I could have the wall demolished?"

"That'll do! I can put the wall back later."

He opens the door. Antir flies through. He holds it and looks around the bar. "Why mosquitos?"

"They carry it. Assuming they do in your world, I can check first."

"How do you check that?"

"I can make arbitrary material objects."

" - wow."

"It's handy."

"Seems like a bit of an understatement."

" - we should check whether it's humans who become daeva if they're summoners. Now that there are humans handy."

"Are there humans in imminent likelihood of death handy?" Cam asks Mitros.

"...there are old ones? Probably if we look hard enough we can find critically ill old ones but I'd feel absurd, having found them, not healing them..."

"Amentans do not, but humans from my home world do, turn into daeva like me when we die if we summoned while alive. I'm a demon, there's also angels and fairies."

"As far as anyone knows nothing happens to us when we die."

"Well, if anyone wants to check, I can give them a summoning circle to finish."