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Adana gets to work. She starts off with less in the way of money than she'd prefer, due to laws about summoning and counterfeiting, but she has a demon bodyguard who can make just about anything. When given something so obvious to work from, she will exploit it as much as possible.
She offers her services to every lunar colony that will give her the time of day. Most of them accept. Cam is instrumental in most of what she does, but Adana summons a few angels to help integrate shiny new things with the older structures in place. The two angels that Cam meets are nice to Adana, but less so to him - he gets the cold shoulder and some pointed glares and insinuations, but nothing else comes of it besides that. Adana keeps the peace as well as she can, distracts all parties involved with things to do, and they carry on without any real incident.
While fixing things is something that she's happy to do, she wants things to be organized in such a way that they don't need her to keep functioning. She has Cam make several factories, specialized in maintenance materials. Then she sells the rights to use them to companies that she background checks as 'not idiots.' She undercuts what it would cost to have them built normally, accepts several commissions to make other factories for things like shuttles and polymer repair gel, and has Cam build those, too. Along with those, miniature black holes are created and sold, to give gravity to space stations and the like. Soon enough, she is rich.
Once she has money to play with it, she starts using it. She bribes several companies into making deals with one another, hires more staff to do her bidding, and then slowly expands. Disaster relief structures are made, funded by her business in services such as extranet ports and factories. She negotiates the disaster relief's neutrality to international laws, and then they get to helping lunar colonies that are having problems.
Meanwhile, she negotiates with Mars and its colonies to set up terraforming. It's slow going, there are a lot of separately governed colonies to get to play nice together, but she makes steady progress. They should be good for terraforming the planet within a year. She realizes that she could just grab Cam and go do it whenever she likes, with or without permission, but she isn't anonymous anymore.
She becomes known as a demon summoner. A very effective demon summoner. Soon it's common for people to look at her nervously when she walks into a room. She doesn't care, except to behave extremely nicely, and play nice with all laws that she can. No need to make people afraid of her or Cam, she's got time to be patient.
True to her word, the binding on Cam is loose and pretty flexible. She doesn't stop being nice to him or treating him like a person just because he is working for her. Actually, if anything, she's nicer - cheerier, happier, thanking him every time he makes her something useful. And there's usually something useful to make, too, because she's always doing something or working on various projects that are all leading towards one goal - make the solar community as nice a place to live as possible.
She offers her services to every lunar colony that will give her the time of day. Most of them accept. Cam is instrumental in most of what she does, but Adana summons a few angels to help integrate shiny new things with the older structures in place. The two angels that Cam meets are nice to Adana, but less so to him - he gets the cold shoulder and some pointed glares and insinuations, but nothing else comes of it besides that. Adana keeps the peace as well as she can, distracts all parties involved with things to do, and they carry on without any real incident.
While fixing things is something that she's happy to do, she wants things to be organized in such a way that they don't need her to keep functioning. She has Cam make several factories, specialized in maintenance materials. Then she sells the rights to use them to companies that she background checks as 'not idiots.' She undercuts what it would cost to have them built normally, accepts several commissions to make other factories for things like shuttles and polymer repair gel, and has Cam build those, too. Along with those, miniature black holes are created and sold, to give gravity to space stations and the like. Soon enough, she is rich.
Once she has money to play with it, she starts using it. She bribes several companies into making deals with one another, hires more staff to do her bidding, and then slowly expands. Disaster relief structures are made, funded by her business in services such as extranet ports and factories. She negotiates the disaster relief's neutrality to international laws, and then they get to helping lunar colonies that are having problems.
Meanwhile, she negotiates with Mars and its colonies to set up terraforming. It's slow going, there are a lot of separately governed colonies to get to play nice together, but she makes steady progress. They should be good for terraforming the planet within a year. She realizes that she could just grab Cam and go do it whenever she likes, with or without permission, but she isn't anonymous anymore.
She becomes known as a demon summoner. A very effective demon summoner. Soon it's common for people to look at her nervously when she walks into a room. She doesn't care, except to behave extremely nicely, and play nice with all laws that she can. No need to make people afraid of her or Cam, she's got time to be patient.
True to her word, the binding on Cam is loose and pretty flexible. She doesn't stop being nice to him or treating him like a person just because he is working for her. Actually, if anything, she's nicer - cheerier, happier, thanking him every time he makes her something useful. And there's usually something useful to make, too, because she's always doing something or working on various projects that are all leading towards one goal - make the solar community as nice a place to live as possible.
from_scratch
"By giving him a stern talking to which he will sum up as 'because morality'?" Cam guesses.
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This catches Adana off guard! She is momentarily stunned, and then replies, "I love you, too."
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"I love you, too," she replies, and then it's back to kissing.
Less than a week later, it's discovered that some of the weather patterns on Mars are a little weird - it's not raining as much as it should, and some of the plants are having trouble because of it. Adana is specifically addressed to fix it.
"Want to?" she asks Cam, when she learns about it.
Less than a week later, it's discovered that some of the weather patterns on Mars are a little weird - it's not raining as much as it should, and some of the plants are having trouble because of it. Adana is specifically addressed to fix it.
"Want to?" she asks Cam, when she learns about it.
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"Okay!" she agrees, and then off they go.
"Go nuts," she tells him, when they're there, with a smile.
"Go nuts," she tells him, when they're there, with a smile.
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Adana will just stand over here with the summoner in charge of the angels that are watching him.
"Pre-made the binding?" asks the summoner.
"Yup!" says Adana, brightly.
The summoner is a little suspicious of this fact - she tilts her head, and uses her magic to check -
- then she hisses.
"That is the loosest binding I've ever seen in my life, are you trying to get everyone killed?!"
"Pre-made the binding?" asks the summoner.
"Yup!" says Adana, brightly.
The summoner is a little suspicious of this fact - she tilts her head, and uses her magic to check -
- then she hisses.
"That is the loosest binding I've ever seen in my life, are you trying to get everyone killed?!"
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".... It's useful for my purposes, it's fine," assures Adana, nervously.
"Useful. For your purposes," says the summoner. "... Put him back. Unsummon him, right now. Before he gets loose and puts a black hole instead of water!"
"Wha- no, it's fine -"
The summoner looks at her. "I'm sorry about this. I really am. You seem like a good kid. Put him back, right now."
"Look, I know what I'm do-"
"You really don't," says her companion. "You really, really don't. I'm sorry about this, so very sorry, but you're a danger. He can't be here with that loose of a binding, and you won't put him back."
"What? No - shit, Cam!" shrieks Adana.
There is the sound of a gunshot -
- and then Cam is back in Hell.
"Useful. For your purposes," says the summoner. "... Put him back. Unsummon him, right now. Before he gets loose and puts a black hole instead of water!"
"Wha- no, it's fine -"
The summoner looks at her. "I'm sorry about this. I really am. You seem like a good kid. Put him back, right now."
"Look, I know what I'm do-"
"You really don't," says her companion. "You really, really don't. I'm sorry about this, so very sorry, but you're a danger. He can't be here with that loose of a binding, and you won't put him back."
"What? No - shit, Cam!" shrieks Adana.
There is the sound of a gunshot -
- and then Cam is back in Hell.
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Maybe it was a warning shot? Cam might be resummoned, later, if he waits long enough.
Except no summon comes. For weeks.
Except no summon comes. For weeks.
from_scratch
Maybe they put her in prison and she has nothing to draw with.
And hasn't been allowed to talk to her dad, or her brother, to suggest that they fetch him up.
Maybe.
He starts writing letters to send next time there's a concordance anyway. And in case he was wrong about what she'd be he puts a pointer to his residence in the major cities of Hell.