shiny new world

[mrsparkle]

Sadde's running.

Not for any particular reason, just because it's faster. He's been meaning to go to one of the capitals for a bit and now, he supposes, is as good a time as any.

And eventually he's not running anymore, because he's close enough to civilisation that someone might spot him. Not that he wouldn't be able to notice them by scent before they saw him, but still. And as he makes his way to the Norway capital at this more leisurely pace, he notices the tiny, shiny key. He walks towards it and picks it up and immediately notices just how magic it is. He can tell by the way the key feels like things, and different things depending on where it is.

He verifies that what the key feels like is consistent in absolute location by waving it around a bit and seeing that the same place always feels the same. "Huh," he murmurs to himself.

He straightens up and thinks. The first obvious thing to try is seeing whether it opens any doors - a universal skeleton key sounds like the kind of thing a magical key could be - but the second obvious thing can be tested right there and then. He pushes the key into thin air with some purpose, as if he wanted to unlock an invisible door, and then turns it, et voilà, the faintest of door-shaped outlines appears before him.

He locks the door, and it disappears. Unlocks it again, and there it is. So he pulls it open and sees-

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[mrsparkle]

"Okay, I guess I probably can do that."

So he pushes away the part of him that doesn't want to ever let go of Cam and tries to focus on him being in the other room (and then going to that other room to hug him more).

[from_scratch]

Cam stands there patiently waiting, tail swishing idly. A minute is such a long time.

[mrsparkle]

It's a terribly, terribly long time.

Is the minute up yet?

[from_scratch]

Yup, there he goes. Pop.

[mrsparkle]

Vampire superspeed to the boyfriend! He doesn't pounce the boyfriend with the superspeed because that wouldn't be nice; he decelerates and then hugs.

[from_scratch]

Hugs. "So, the real test of whether I count as summoned while that's ongoing would be to leave me summoned for a while, long enough that it would be weird if no humans were summoning random demons, and see if I can feel the pulls."

[mrsparkle]

"How long's that likely to be? Did you get any pulls this last month? And can't I try to summon you twice?"

[from_scratch]

"There's usually several in a week, sometimes a few a day. Sometimes more if there's some coordinated multi-demon effort."

[mrsparkle]

"Not that long, then. Should we try it?"

[from_scratch]

"Sure. You'll need to draw a new circle, that one's used up."

[mrsparkle]

"...I have a few questions about that, but lemme draw a new circle first."

So he goes and does that.

[from_scratch]

Cam appears in it. "Questions?"

[mrsparkle]

"If I erase part of a used up circle and complete it again, does it then become a new circle?"

[from_scratch]

"Nope. But if you make it out of, say, drizzled sand on the ground, you can reuse the sand if you gather it all up."

[mrsparkle]

"What if I successively replace parts of a circle with new parts, does it count as a new one after I've replaced all of it?"

[from_scratch]

"I don't remember trying that, but maybe I did..." He fetches his computer and looks up his notes. "No, I did not try that particular experiment as a summoner."

[mrsparkle]

"Which ones did you try? Is there a list?"

[from_scratch]

"I took really good notes, do you just want my project notebook from when I first discovered summoning?"

[mrsparkle]

"Sure!"

[from_scratch]

Cam hands it to him. It opens with a recounting of how he found this weird book in an abandoned mansion and tried something in it just for kicks and holy fuck it worked and now he's going to make a serious study of the thing.

[mrsparkle]

Which is exactly what Sadde would have done in his place.

[from_scratch]

There's notes on what transpired when he talked to the angel summoned out of the book he found, and then there's notes on the rest of the book as he read it, and then various interviews and tests with other daeva.

[mrsparkle]

Sadde has the best boyfriend. It is a fact.

[from_scratch]

And then there were speculations on what fully scaled-up daeva summoning would do for the world and the beginning sketches of a plan.

[mrsparkle]

Sadde himself would've probably spent more time testing, but maybe Cam's way worked out better.