At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"If you just leave it on the side of the road with the keys in it'll get stolen, probably. Moryo's sending a car."

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"Hooray for vehicle theft. Er, how does he know to do that?"

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"I just told him to. We're telepathic."

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"Gosh, what a fully featured species of magical elves you are."

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"Humans were kinda disappointing when we met them."

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"They have many drawbacks!"

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"But the power at least in principle to overcome them. That's something."

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"Mm-hm. Although I hope if we invent telepathy we invent really polite telepathy, otherwise I will have to become a hermit."

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"Oh, I don't know how much speculative fiction you read but I get the impression some people think that if mindreading were a thing it'd just be no big deal, whatever, read people's minds for fun and profit and continue to be the protagonist? And other people acknowledge it would be a big deal but only because you might get the details of someone's sex life, which really is not my complaint."

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"I can't say I've been following speculative fiction. Elven societies vary in how much it's courteous to make public, some of them it's pretty much everything and they seem to get along all right."

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"I'm sure it's possible to run cultures on this hardware but I would have to go be a hermit."

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"I doubt humans'll sprout telepathy any time soon. Are daeva ahead, technologically? Since you can make things as much as you want..."

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"I think so, but unfortunately this also removes a lot of our physicists' incentives to collaborate. Maybe somebody has solved physics off in deep void and hasn't told anybody."

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"That would be very cruel. Maybe someone should summon every single demon to ask them."

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"We don't have to answer summonses."

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"It'd be kind of horrible otherwise. But maybe the physicist in the void would."

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"Maybe. You'd need to specify them, though, I can't think of a way to specify a void physicist."

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"There's no list of names somewhere?"

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"Of everyone's? No."

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"How many demons are there?"

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"Hard to keep a very good census but like a couple billion."

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"Is it coincidence that's near the human population?"

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"I'm not sure."

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A sleek black car arrives; the driver is human, and waves them in, and has warm drinks in thermoses in a minibar inside.

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