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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 -
Demon Cam and Ripper
from_scratch
tearingup
"...Not usually, and... I've never heard of a magic shop selling fake holy water... but you can make things, right, no I have no idea how to check if yours holds up without giving it the smoke test. So to speak."
from_scratch
"Okay, that should be exciting, I suppose. Are they common? Do people know about them, by and large? For that matter what do people in general know about magic and demons?"
tearingup
"People in general are - Rayne, did you fall asleep in there?"
He goes into the kitchen. Rayne is sitting in a chair beside a long-since-boiled electric kettle and two mugs containing one dry teabag each. He is indeed asleep. Ripper sighs and picks up the kettle to refill it with fresh water.
"Sory, where was I?"
He goes into the kitchen. Rayne is sitting in a chair beside a long-since-boiled electric kettle and two mugs containing one dry teabag each. He is indeed asleep. Ripper sighs and picks up the kettle to refill it with fresh water.
"Sory, where was I?"
from_scratch
"You were telling me about the general population's knowledge of things. Do you want me to just make you tea?"
tearingup
"Right. General population doesn't know a thing." He puts down the kettle. "Yeah, go on then. You're very helpful. Did I ever get your name?"
from_scratch
Cam makes him a cup of tea and hands it over. "I'm Cam. How do you exit the general population in that respect, in what way are you non-general?"
tearingup
"Thanks. Well, the way I did is I grew up with it. Not sure about Rayne. But it's the kind of thing you learn from a friend or relative, or maybe picking up the wrong book and accidentally doing some magic, or being lucky enough to survive a vampire attack."
tearingup
"I have better things to do with my time. I'm not powerful enough to easily prove I can do really real magic and not some kind of trick, people can be amazingly skeptical when they don't know. And I wouldn't see the point if I could, what would I get out of it?"
tearingup
"How should I know what your definition of good tea is? You're a demon. An American demon. From another universe. Maybe in your world they make tea out of grass and goat shit."
tearingup
"Light candles, not very reliably. Other odds and ends. I haven't studied a lot of spells; I haven't found many that seem worth the trouble. Who wants to be able to turn themselves into a rat?"
tearingup
"And honestly, I'd rather not learn how to turn myself into a rat even if someday I might be in a situation where every other option looked worse. There have got to be better last resorts than that."
tearingup
"Admittedly no. But I'd know where to find one if I thought I was gonna need it. More or less."