demon!Edie in daeva!Arda
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"I'll encourage people to give it a try when we're out of the system - it seems like the kind of thing that'd get us called into Mandos for a talk, if they noticed thousands of times as many summonings - we also don't have lots of plates of cookies to go around, crops don't grow without the Suns and panicked people have pretty much cleaned out store shelves..."

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"I will give you as many plates of cookies as you need for this specific purpose."

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"Thank you."

And they're approaching the palace. Even in the dark it's spectacular. 

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"Patience has its virtues, I see."

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"The cities we built ourselves. Well, designed ourselves, the Valar obviously built them."

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"I commend your design sense."

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"I will pass it on to the people who were around back then! Also their foresight; at the time there were scarcely two million of us but they built the city to grow elegantly, and so it has."

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"Nice."

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They reach the palace. He walks in. Neither his father nor Nolofinwe has claimed the throne room; both of them have set up rooms in which to receive audiences. And of course he's already written ahead and they've straightened out the logistics on this, but for the benefit of everyone in the area, he sweeps in, is announced, kneels on the stunning stone floor. "Your grace, we have a fleet."

 

"Good," he says, "let's start shuttle runs to Araman now, then."

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Yeah they're just gonna stand here if they were supposed to do anything else he shoulda said.

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No one is expecting courtesies from the daeva. The default assumption here is that most daeva would be the Valar if they could. He stands and conveys the orders to start boarding shuttles and then he gestures them towards his office - "something to eat? I have the menus of Tirion's three nicest restaurants -" and then closes his eyes and solves peoples' complaints as best he can.

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Ooh, menus. Yes please.

It's sorta weird how he's just sitting there with his eyes closed but whatever.

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He is informing his father's half-brother that he has a fleet and is happy to share, what's the division of ships that seems just and also leaves them a united command on the other side of the jump, because a united command is really important.

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Backups are the only chip-feature that has been explained so far so neither the demon nor the angel knows this is possible.

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Then they'll just think he has a headache, or perhaps does meditative trances. He left them the menus, they can probably entertain themselves.

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They're very impressed with Tirion's restaurants. And happy just to be able to spend time together.

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And once logistics are humming along he can't help but think about whether he can use two currently-friendly daeva to fix the succession crisis. Having them makes his side obviously manifestly more qualified to handle things which might spring up during the fighting, but he's not planning to keep them that long, and having them also makes it less wise for him to be indispensable. His first assessment is that 'rule the world' is not at the top of their list of aspirations, but daeva are harder to read than people, and have more incentive to lie, and no osanwe... 

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If either of them knew about osanwe at least one of them would be keen to see if that last part were fixable but alas.

They continue to demonstrate personality traits compatible with not ruling the world given a less-than-ethical chance to do so.

...Actually, they continue to demonstrate personalities more like people than like daeva.

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Which is kind of weird, so, after a while - 

"I would love to hear more about your native dimension."

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"Fair enough. Are you more interested in the Daeva realms or the mortal one? Or Limbo, technically that one's not either."

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"Either, but I'd expect daeva realms to have a great deal in common across dimensions."

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"Except that ours is orders of magnitude younger. Hell is vacuum, Fairyland is an infinite plane, Heaven is infinite glowing cloud-fluff--don't know that much about Heaven or Fairyland culture, but most demons live on a gigantic plane of gold that exerts its own gravity, it's so big, someone thought it would be a good idea a long time ago and the notion stuck." And she goes on to give a brief cultural/social overview of the city she lives in, and then launches into a somewhat meandering, poorly organized description of earth history. She's not really a historian, so it focuses disproportionately on things that interest her, like civil rights movements and the time period she lived in (early twenty-first-century) and Judaism.

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"If our Hell has a giant plane of gold so big it exerts its own gravity no one's mentioned it. I don't think most demons live in cities, either. Maybe the underlying species difference.

 

We also don't really have religions. People worshipped the Valar before we figured out what they were."

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"Daeva haven't been public knowledge for most of human history," she explains.

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"Oh? When'd that happen?"

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