demon!Edie in daeva!Arda
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"Angry as in liable to write you rude letters or angry as in 'it is potentially useful that we do not prefer to be dismissed sooner rather than later'?"

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"They are half a continent away and most communications equipment went down when we got a black hole and we're running old footage as if it's live. We are hoping to sneak out before they notice we're gone. If not, though, we're leaving anyway. We'd need your help for that."

He'd have to snap the bindings and there's no chance that doesn't end with him dead but if there's some chance it gets a few hundred thousand people out to Araman first -

He doesn't say that yet, obviously.

 

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She has read enough things by now to be confident in oaths.

"I hope it doesn't come down to it being a good thing that we don't prefer to leave straight off, then."

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They head out to Alqualonde, the nearest shuttleport that's still open. Six hundred thousand people, walking because someone might idly conjure traffic records and walking leaves no traces. It's a hundred fifty miles. They will be there in twelve hours; they are Eldar. (They have a statistically-ordinary number of train passengers for everyone unable to run that kind of distance.)

I have a demon, he growls at everyone who speaks of supplies. I will get you your entire house back if you want.

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Is no one going to notice this many people going at this pace on foot?

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Lots of people are going to notice, no daeva should notice. My people have been commanded not to communicate with the Valar, do things that might draw their attention, or put to recorded form information about our plans. Once we cross the border it'll be more trouble, but even if they contact the Valar on the spot we'll have a little bit of time, enough to get into the air - and they might not contact the Valar on the spot.

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Might not?

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The Teleri - that's the country we're entering, Teler - don't have any especial fondness for the Valar and people unauthorizedly using their shuttleport might be the sort of thing they write down in a message titled attn: Varda so they've done their jobs, rather than flying straight for Taniquetil.

 

There's another option but I am guessing you won't like it.

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Does it involve killing people, she sighs.

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You could resurrect them afterwards if you wanted.

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Isn't that illegal? I assume putting knock-out drugs directly into their bloodstreams would also be illegal.

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Yep, all options other than 'pray they don't tell the Valar' don't work with your bindings. 

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Then don't offer me the chance to do things I cannot, in fact, do.

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Swear you won't destroy your chip. Swear you won't kill anyone in a way that destroys their chip, swear you won't render me unconscious -

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She takes his meaning immediately. "I swear I won't destroy my chip at least until I've been dismissed. I swear I won't kill anyone in a way that destroys their chip. I swear I won't render you unconscious unless it's as temporary as I can feasibly make it under the circumstances and I have strong evidence it's for your own benefit."

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And you will not try to bring about the destruction of the chip, and you will prevent it if attempted.

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"I swear that until I have been dismissed I will not allow my chip to be destroyed or impaired to the point of making oaths nonviable without technically being destroyed if there's anything I can do about it."

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He snaps the binding.

 

If there's no one in Alqualonde conscious to send a warning we can get everyone out in time.

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Wow. Wow.

Everyone in Alqualonde--well, no--

I can't get literally everyone there with knockout drugs directly to the bloodstream but I can blanket the whole area with knockout gas after giving everyone here a gas mask, let people know to put them on?

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So he tells people.

 

Some of them infer that he must have unbound his demon and there are horrified glances in his direction but these are his people and they trust him and anyway Edie's mind is readable and so far contains no effort to find loopholes.

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She doesn't want to find loopholes, she wants to save lives. She wouldn't be running amok without the oaths, not that they're not a perfectly reasonable security precaution.

Gas masks for everyone, and then she wants to check to make sure that everyone's wearing theirs securely before she floods the air with soporifics.

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They cross the border to Teler unbothered by border officials. They reach its shuttleport unbothered by anyone. They start getting shuttles out into the air, ten at a time, two hundred people in each. 

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Good. Hopefully they can get off the planet without--well, without it becoming relevant that she's there in the way she originally feared.

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Want to just make the shuttles so they don't have to make return trips -

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Good plan. She does the thing.

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