At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Um, the first demon we summoned agreed to stay but - had some kind of misunderstanding about what that involved, and kept touching his summoner even though she was uncomfortable with that, and then he touched her hair and she kicked him and the Valar were really worried that this whole enterprise was making people contagiously violent so they stopped for a while."

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"I don't understand the hair thing. I should maybe have read up more but I didn't think I'd actually get an interview really... not that I'm not glad about it or anything..."

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"Touching peoples' hair is a horrible thing to do to them," she says earnestly. 

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"...why?"

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" - I don't really know how to explain if you don't already know. If you really wanted to touch someone's hair you would marry them and then you could - but still only if they were all right with it -"

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"I was at a hair braiding party last week. Everybody had fun."

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Elf squawks unhappily.

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"I don't mean to upset you. I'll be really sad if I have to be far away from everybody all the time but I could just go home sometimes or you could summon my friends so I don't get touch-starved? - oh, I guess if you use the same binding to summon my friends we wouldn't even be able to touch each other -"

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"- I don't think it would be a problem to change it so you can't touch Elves, if demons wouldn't mind touching each other?"

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"I don't mind at all, not if we're friends."

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"Then probably we can do that. And you can go home whenever you want."

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"Okay. And it's a correspondence job? How many times a day do you think you want messages checked for on a normal day?"

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" - every day sounds a bit often. If we could check messages every month that would be good."

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"Oh, then you barely need me here at all - I thought it was a long term thing -"

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"If you'd rather go back and forth I can't see why not do that, really. We're only doing this because a couple people were really really insistent."

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"Revelation says he wants you to have a correspondence demon because that will mean fewer people want to go here in person."

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"Well, they can't get in, the Valar made it so fairies stop working much sooner. But yeah, humans are really really not supposed to come to Valinor and it's better if they don't want to even if they'd fail."

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Nod. "I'm not sure getting letters through once a month will do as much to help as getting them through a few times a day."

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"Why not?"

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"There are humans and daeva who really want to talk to people here and more letters in less time feels more like talking."

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"I don't know if people here really want to talk to humans and daeva. But we could do more often if you think it's a good idea."

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"Maybe you could interview somebody else on the list and - or am I the last one -"

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"Uh, no, you're the first one."

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"Oh, so you could have a couple of us and even if we go home a lot there could always be one around and then nobody back on Earth or the daeva realms would feel ignored."

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"They won't feel ignored if people take months to write back?"

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