i wasn't looking for this

[from_scratch]

This is a successor to call me maybe and trade my soul for a wish, which were getting crowded.

with Emily (Maggie)

with Alex (ErinFlight)

with Destin (Rockeye)

with Nick (Rockeye)

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[iamnotpolaris]

"Okay, good to know."

[from_scratch]

"...And now I'm wondering if she can do that to daeva at all. There has never been a way to test if our indestructibility extends to telepathic attack. And if it does you need a plan B if you summon one by accident again."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Well, I guess I don't do any more design work until I'm ready to introduce you to my sister, then, and I hope you're willing to let her test if she can knock you out."

[from_scratch]

"If that's all she does, nice and neat, yeah."

[iamnotpolaris]

"All she does. She can also make someone stop in their tracks without actually falling unconscious, usually in situations where it would be bad for the person to just go limp, and that doesn't require any mind reading either."

[from_scratch]

"...That one sounds terrifying to be on the receiving end of. And might not stop a daeva; we don't have to move to use our powers."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I wasn't suggesting you volunteer for it." She shrugs. "I don't disagree that it doesn't sound fun, but there are worse things. Deadman's switches exist, for example."

[from_scratch]

"I'm acquainted."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh?"

[from_scratch]

"Not from personal experience, I just read a lot."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Ah. That sounded like a tone of voice with a story behind it."

[from_scratch]

"I have stories, but none of them are about deadman's switches."

[iamnotpolaris]

"None of mine, either." She considers. "A bunch of the storier stories aren't even really mine."

[from_scratch]

"Well, you get around a lot, sounds like."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Oh, sure, but 'we went to this universe and saw these interesting things and engaged socially with people and helped out if we could and then left' isn't very storyish compared to, say, how my parents met, or how one of them had a profoundly terrible adolescence, or why neither of us look a bit like Aunt Raven, or The Cuba Incident, etcetera."

[from_scratch]

"Fair enough." He makes himself a little paper bag of popcorn and eats some. "And a lot of my stories are just things that just happened around me because I was on summon and couldn't talk or anything."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Shame."

[from_scratch]

"It can be frustrating. I cope."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I imagine so. Why can't you talk, usually?"

[from_scratch]

"Oh, people don't want demons to talk them out of their souls."

[iamnotpolaris]

"Is that a thing that can happen?"

[from_scratch]

"Talking people into trading their souls, yes, actually collecting at any point, no."

[iamnotpolaris]

"That seems...pointless."

[from_scratch]

"Summonings typically involve trade. Demons are a little hard to trade with, in a 'what do you get for the hellcreature who has everything' sense. The answers are, in approximate order of frequency: media recommendations, sex, and entertaining reactions to the prospect of soul loss."

[iamnotpolaris]

"I can think of so many more amusing things to do to someone than convince them they've lost their soul."