At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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He picks up. "Hello?" he says in English.

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"Hi, Matthew said I should call you instead of him with my stack of questions about all the everything? I'm the demon he summoned the other week."

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"Yes, he said to expect you. He works for the NSA, they listen to weird calls he gets at work."

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"Gotcha. Should've checked, didn't occur to me. Is he going to be in trouble for consorting with demons or anything?"

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"I don't know what NSA policies on summoning are but possibly. It's okay, he can retire early."

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"Okay. Do you want me to present my questions as they precipitated out of bewildered forensic conjuration and have to correct my context six times a minute or do you just want to start from the beginning?"

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"I am not necessarily planning on answering your questions, honestly."

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"Why not?"

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"I have a lot of demands on my time."

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"Look, I understand you have no strong reason to be interested in resolving the confusion a random demon your brother summoned is experiencing but I am capable of making positive sum trades even when I am not standing in a circle, you can probably think of some way I could save you some time."

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"I expect you've noticed by now that we're very old and not in much of a hurry."

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Sigh. "So, you're not necessarily planning on answering my questions, but you might?"

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"That sounds like about the only stance it would be reasonable to take on the information you've given me so far."

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"What do you wanna know?"

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"How likely you are to go on a righteous crusade of vengeance on behalf of people thirty thousand years dead, honestly."

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"That sounds very unlike me."

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"Fine. I'm an undergrad at MIT, if you want to stop by we can chat. But only because taking summoning public was a really great thing to do."

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"Beg pardon?"

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"My brother doesn't actually work at the NSA for the pension plan, he just says that because he thinks it's cute."

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"Am I supposed to believe the NSA identified me?"

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"I am very sure Matthew hasn't let anyone else notice. He wouldn't do that. Presuming you had a reason to do it this way in the first place, and all."

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"I did but it didn't work."

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"Why don't you come up to Boston and we can spare him the work of making sure he's the only person listening in."

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"Sure. Be there soon. How do I find you once I show up?"

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He gives an address.

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