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Hop hop hop. His apartment is built atop Ambaróna's largest concert hall, with a vaulted ceiling and glass windows on three sides looking out on the city skyline and on the palace and out to the sea. 

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"Oh wow."

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"Welcome to Ambaróna! That's the palace over there, and we're atop a concert hall - I actually mostly copied the concert hall off one in Hell, they have had millennia to get good at the acoustics-with-no-concern-for-material-limits thing." He walks over to his desk, shuffles through what looks like a box of gleaming stylized laser pointers. He selects a dark red one, hands it to her - "you point it at the floor and press the button -"

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"Do I? What is it?"

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"It summons demons! They can make you all your things back, if you'd like them, or any other things you might ask for. But you should let me do the negotiating."

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"Shouldn't I have a shopping list first?"

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"I suppose that'd be responsible. - should we go back for your family -"

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"I dunno - my siblings aren't old enough to leave my parents and my parents aren't supposed to leave their jobs -"

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"I asked your mother what happened if we just gave everyone in your world the option to emigrate to somewhere nicer but she was I think a little flustered by the question -"

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"Yeah I think you scared her. Uh if all the reds leave nobody else'll do our jobs."

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"And would all the reds leave, given a choice?"

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"Maybe not all but a whole lot."

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"Anything to do with dead bodies or garbage or wastewater."

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"Could just give 'em robots."

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"Every now and then someone suggests that and we riot because we do not wish to be slaughtered as redundancies."

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" - so no robots until we've gotten you all out? Or at least gotten permission to take you all?"

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"Yeah pretty much."

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"Okay. Unless your governments are remarkably hard to work with we can still probably get them all resettled by the end of the year."

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"I've never tried, can't help you with that."

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"You can help me by knowing about problems I might not think of - like, most societies would not slaughter suddenly-redundant citizens, we might have been taken aback by that if we'd just met them and handed them lots of technology -"

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"We're unclean, if we aren't needed to handle other unclean things they wouldn't want us to be anywhere at all."

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"Well. Are you pretty much self-policing and self-governing, we could just drop everybody on a nice temperate planet with a set of pens for everyone -" he gestures at the laser pointers he said summon demons - "or we could integrate them into existing communities."

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"There's some interface people but we could mostly self-organize, it's just none of us know how to farm or manufacture anything..."

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"Demons can make arbitrary material objects. It's just a question of what'll produce the healthiest and happiest communities - your mother seemed skittish around me but I don't know if that means you'd integrate badly if it were announced properly and done more formally -"

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