"Yes. What I did to protect you was copy you just the relevant portion of mine. It's not as thoroughly attached as mine is, but I'd expect it to hold up against most things less emphatic than gods."

"Oh. Thank you very much."

He makes the least unhappy expression Cam has seen on his face thus far.

"You're welcome."

Cam starts translating an intro to being a demon.

Korovai thinks quietly to himself.

After a minute, he mentions, "My notes on constructing my immortality are in plain Aiha and I don't mind if you read them, if you're curious."

"- oh, thanks. This'd be for academic interest -?"

"If I'm able to return to the world I was last in, it would be possible for you to acquire taieli. You would need to spend nine days alone in the taieli monument while it evaluates you for suitability."

"Suitability?"

"Taieli has the potential to be as destructive as your creation power if not more, and in a much broader variety of ways, some of which can be easy mistakes to make. The monument is tasked with ensuring that only sufficiently responsible people become atailoran."

"What happens if it doesn't like me?"

"It declines to give you the magic and then ignores you unless you decide to try again, at which point it reevaluates you fairly."

"Okay, that's pretty tame."

"I approve of its creators' design sense, magically if not architecturally."

He sends an illustrative mental image of the architecture.

"...there's a certain poorly lit brutalism flair to it."

"In defense of the lighting scheme, I think it was developed under the assumption that there would be any other light in the universe."

"...I might take less than nine days to be dismissed and attempted-resummoned."

"...I am not sure what happens if someone tries to dismiss you while you are being evaluated by the monument, but possiblities include you staying in the monument."

"...then if they resummon me and I can't go... yeah this sounds like it might not work out I was only halfway through."

He nods.

"Maybe later?"

"If and when we find each other again."

"Yeah."

Another nod.

"It'll take nearly five days for them to get to my summoner though, so if you want help or more translations in that time - I would go back to that Earth and find useful things to do but there's the thing where they jumped me for no reason and I don't know why -"

"Yes, that was... unsettling. I would trust my immortality enough to go ask them about it if I anticipated any benefit from doing so, but I'm not sure I do."