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. Those things."

Breakfast is yummy. The Internet turns up no public information about either of Cam's parents in the places they are meant to be. Professor Marsh?

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Professor Marsh turns out, after a series of enquiries, to be attending to some kind of experiment that mostly takes place in a petri dish. He's peering intently into a microscope when they find him.
Daphne gently tugs Cam out of the doorway. "Probably better to wait for him to finish."

[from_scratch]

Cam doesn't object.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Professor Marsh will be peering into a microscope and muttering to himself and scribbling notes for a good half-hour, but if Cam and Daphne are willing to wait that long he looks up and sees them at the end of that period.

[from_scratch]

Cam entertains himself with his computer during the interim. "Hello!" he says, when they have professorial attention.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Ah, hello," he says. "Little Bird, who is this?"
"This is a matter-conjuring demon from another dimension. He wants you to introduce him to someone from a government medical agency, or introduce him to someone who can introduce him etcetera, so he can make new limbs for amputees. Real limbs, not prosthetic ones."
"Ah," the professor says. "I expect a demonstration is called for?"

[from_scratch]

"The limbs for amputees doesn't scale I only mentioned it because it was flashy I'd have to do it personally every time the real winners in my arsenal are the vaccines and fancy medical scanners and drugs," says Cam in a long sigh.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I meant for matter conjuration in general, not limb replacement in particular. I don't think anyone in this room is volunteering to have a limb removed," he says dryly.
Daphne looks up at the ceiling innocently. Professor Marsh either doesn't notice or pretends not to.

[from_scratch]

"Sure. Do you need some matter?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Professor Marsh names a complicated-sounding Science Gadget.

[from_scratch]

"I can make it with that model name alone but I can make a better guess about where a reasonable place to put it might be if you give me its approximate dimensions. Or point at an appropriate flat surface."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Professor Marsh points at a convenient lab bench.

[from_scratch]

And there is a gadget.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Well, this does seem to be in order. I'm impressed, Ms. Major, I think this young man might be the most useful of your paramours yet."
"...We haven't actually had sex yet."
"Details," he says, waving a hand.

[from_scratch]

Heh heh.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"So his dimension is farther in the future than ours, and when he said he wanted to make medical stuff he meant he wanted to bring the state of the art forward a few centuries, not just reduce scarcity of the stuff we already have."
"Ah hah."

[from_scratch]

"Although I can do that too! In my world daeva have been a known thing since 2005 and having demons - more importantly, angels - accessible may have slowed our medical progress a bit; some things you have now are still useful even from my perspective."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Daeva being demons and angels, I suppose."
"And fairies, but they're less medically relevant from what he's said," Daphne explains.
"Well. I'll talk to some people, and see what I can dig up."

[from_scratch]

"That would be great!"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"In the meantime, I need to get these notes filed."

[from_scratch]

"Can you recommend anyone else who might also be interested in helping me get stuff spread out as fast as possible?" Cam asks, which is fairly diplomatic compared to "I can cure six forms of cancer, fuck your notes".

[maggie_of_the_owls]

It is, it's true. Unfortunately, Professor Marsh does not understand the magnitude of what Demon Cam has to offer.
He names someone in the medical department that Daphne isn't personally acquainted with, and writes a note of introduction.

[from_scratch]

Which Cam takes. He goes looking for the person in the medical department.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

The person in the medical department is familiar with the general reputation of Daphne's social circle but not with her specifically. She is duly impressed by his demonstration of ability-to-make-things, and asks for a demonstration of a future-thing.

[from_scratch]

Cam pulls his computer from his waist and turns it on.