call me maybe

[from_scratch]

Cam is out flying. There's a decent cloud of atmosphere around the gold plane, now, millenia of demons making air around themselves for comfort and not sealing it up because why would you bother. There's a small forest, here - the effect is kind of ruined by the lamps it has to grow under, but it's still pretty.

He feels an open summons and lets it grab him -

with the Joker (kappa)

with Ripper (kappa)

with Darren (Aestrix)

with Minus (kappa)

with Emma (Marri)

with Facility 3141592 (armokGoB)

with the admin (kappa)

with Jarvis (kappa, Aestrix)

with Miles (kappa)

with Hank (Nemo)

Comments

[eversomuchfun]

"Yes."

[from_scratch]

"During the day, in your crypt?" Cam confirms.

[eversomuchfun]

"Yes and yes. It's more comfortable than it looks; there's a slightly hidden room containing a bed."

[from_scratch]

"Okay. Do you object if I nap in said crypt now, and can I get you to wake me up when the sun rises so I can go mooch off library wifi?" Pause. "Libraries have wifi by this year, right?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Some of them. Possibly not the local. But they do have computers. And yes, go on."

[from_scratch]

"Preference between me making myself some form of furniture that you will then have around until you get rid of it, and me borrowing your bed?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Don't care in the slightest."

[from_scratch]

"Right then."

A bit of making later, and Cam is snoozing in a hammocky thing suspended from the ceiling, wings flopped over the edges and peeking out from under a fleecy blanket.

[eversomuchfun]

Well, that's adorable.

Sherlock makes tea. He drinks the tea. He contemplates the positive and negative aspects of the Cam situation.

Come sunrise, he wakes Cam up. Or attempts to. If saying 'wake up' won't cut it, he may have to strategize.

[from_scratch]

Cam wakes up pretty easy. "Morning. I hope you did not become suicidally bored while I was adjusting to local time."

[eversomuchfun]

"Happily, no. I still haven't found out how the school is going to respond to the fake summoning."

[from_scratch]

"Oh, is that what you were doing. Why?"

[eversomuchfun]

"The amusement value of observing their pathetic cover-up, or the interest of observing one that is not pathetic."

[from_scratch]

"Who's in charge of covering up circles of blood at the local school?"

[eversomuchfun]

"In most places it's the nearest person with a bad excuse ready to hand - no organized effort, no one who knows what's going on - but I have my suspicions about the principal."

[from_scratch]

"And nobody has failed at a task like this spectacularly enough that, like, the government - which employs public employees who openly consult fake psychics back in my world where all the psychics are definitely fake - has found out. Really?"

[eversomuchfun]

"At least some branches seem to be aware of at least some things, but clearly none of those people have taken the trouble to go public with anything more interesting than fake psychics."

[from_scratch]

"This is a spectacular coordination failure, are you sure it's natural?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Oh, there's probably a conspiracy or two at work."

[from_scratch]

"But they didn't show up to your vampiric orienation meeting?"

[eversomuchfun]

"It was rather a hurried affair."

[from_scratch]

"So it's not a comprehensive conspiracy, conspiracy agents are not showing up at your crypt to arrest you and your summoned demon for being theatrical, etcetera."

[eversomuchfun]

"Indeed not. No one has that kind of reach. There are any number of different interests whose reach is extensive, and I know about some and could guess at some others, but I feel confident in saying that there is no ultimate level of conspiracy with the power to identify and punish individual indiscretions."

[from_scratch]

"So it remains bizarre and questionable that it hasn't broken open. Back home the general quiet on the subject was explained by economic motives and the small population of summoners, but here - I might need to know more before I am particularly flagrant, I think."

[eversomuchfun]

"By all means. If you want a partial list, the Watcher's Council is one such interest; a demonic law firm called Wolfram and Hart is another."