trade my soul for a wish

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to "call me maybe", which is getting crowded.

Cam is dipping a grilled cheese sandwich into a bowl of tomato soup when he feels the summons. He goes ahead and grabs it. Doesn't even drop the sandwich.


with Mark (kappa)

with Adanya (Aestrix)

with Sable (kappa)

with Ari (andaisq)

with Metella (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Steel (Rockeye)

with Daphne (Maggie)

with Edie (Maggie)

Comments

[from_scratch]

"Yes, yes, I will check now I know you have intrasolar aliens. What else have you got besides Martians, vampires, gremlins, fairies that probably aren't the kind I'm used to, demons that definitely aren't the kind I'm used to, and humans?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Werewolves, swamp things, ghosts, and honestly I don't think there's anything I for sure and certain could tell you doesn't exist."

[from_scratch]

"Well, that's all very exciting. Is there a known explanation of any kind for why you're a Stuff Magnet?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"...We think it might have something to do with the private thing I mentioned earlier."

[from_scratch]

"Okay."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I'm sorry if it seems like I'm being cryptic, I just don't like to talk about it."

[from_scratch]

"This is me, not asking."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Augh. Yes, sorry, I'm attributing characteristics to you based on other people again. Usually I get badgered and--well. But you're being perfectly nice."

[from_scratch]

"I try. Everybody is lucky Mr. Sacrificing People To Something got me instead of some more antisocial demon."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I'll bet."

[from_scratch]

"Incidentally, don't draw on the floor, since apparently that can get you demons even though this is the wrong universe. I'd offer to teach you to safely summon things but it's not entirely clear yet that it'll work normally - say, if I can't get back - and I can't think of anybody I want to make that experiment with."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That is also a good point. If you want to get back without killing your summoner, I could probably convince him to send you back if you let him wake up now that I'm not tied to anything. And if I knew how to do it."

[from_scratch]

"Oh, no, I have no pressing engagements in Hell. I won't have the slightest reason to experiment with sending me back until the next concordance, and that's not for years, and that's assuming time is even passing at the same rate in both worlds and it hasn't been seven hundred years. Hell is perfectly nice, but nobody needs anything there and I can re-make all my stuff and I didn't have a close social network."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"What's a concordance?"

[from_scratch]

"It's when any pair of the non-mortal worlds overlap. Mortal world doesn't participate, but when Hell overlaps Fairyland, say, we get to send mail."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Oh, cool. So you have penpals? ...But not a social circle in Hell? That's a little strange."

[from_scratch]

"I have penpals but not a close social circle in Hell. There are people who know me and we like each other for the most part, but I take a lot of summons and I'm pretty introverted and my old violin teacher and library buddies and so on will think nothing of it if I'm gone for a few decades, the pen pals will notice first."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Okay, that makes sense. You play violin? Is it gold plated?"

[from_scratch]

"I sense you have figured out why I picked violin when I decided to learn an instrument."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I love that song. I actually have a friend who's an incubus who plays the violin for the same reason."

[from_scratch]

"And I thought I was so creative. But anyway, I have a few violins back home and which one or ones I make here will depend on the circumstances."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"It's a popular song. Reasonably popular, anyway. Tzarsik says that demons who actually try to collect souls hate it."

[from_scratch]

"My kind of demon can't actually do that but it's a popular myth that we can. Yours can pull it off?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Yeah, I think so. It doesn't happen very often."

[from_scratch]

"When it happens, does it involve violin contests...?"