"Oh, that would be dreadful."

"Yes, exactly. And a profound unfairness to all of you. So we're keeping it secret for now. But we researched all the beneficial effects Revelation had for your world, we'd love to have a way to share it that wasn't disruptive here, we immediately set some people to researching how new daeva appear in your world, to see whether it scaled with your population or anything..."

"Oh?"

"Not exactly, but we found something even more interesting than that - we've found it very easy to pay demons, see, with media recommendations, we were able to do a lot of research - and in your world, summoners who die become daeva."

"- really? How'd you figure that out?"

"Conjuring for new daeva recently, noticing that sometimes they look more human-typical than others, following up on that - once we realized, conjuring for the posthumous works of certain people, which turns up things they wrote as daeva - and then asking some of them. I can have someone do it in front of you if you want to check."

"We've got an in-house investigative demon, but I'd love to meet one of yours."

He talks to one of the yellows, who puts down a piece of paper and fills it in and waits for the demon (likes Anitami orchestra concerts) to show.

"Are you a professional summoner?" Plum asks the yellow.

Yellow does not speak English. Blue translates the question and the answer. "Insofar as we have that, being new to the discipline."

"How new?"

"We've had about one of your years of training. We have had no incidents so far."

"Is it all specialists or are regular Amentans summoning sometimes?"

"All specialists - if we taught everyone how to do it some of them would tell the aliens and we'd run into the overuse problem."

"Oh, I see. You were explaining how you wound up on this excursion -"

"Right. So. Your summoners become daeva if you die. We don't, we checked. We don't know if it's a species thing or a universe thing, but we want to check. If it's this universe, we have a way to get more daeva so everyone can have daeva."

"Are... you expecting to die soon?"

"We're hoping to set up a planet well out of your way and have enough people there that statistically we'll get an answer soon enough."

"Oh, I see, that explains going to Neptune and jumping away."

"I know humans have different concerns, but Amentans would be very alarmed for aliens to arrive in substantial numbers without clear immediate plans to go somewhere, so it'd seem rude to do to someone else."

"How many of you have come through?"

"About ten thousand."

"How were the immigrants picked out?"

"People who wanted to come here for an experimental project, liked what we knew of humans and human media and were comfortable having human neighbors if that ended up happening, had skills we'll need to set up a planet, and had sensible instincts about how to handle potential summoning problems."

"How far along are you in setting up your planet?"