The portal system is replaced with a more secure successor over time. Inferno's subworlds are still non-urgent, but the daeva do get a portal to Limbo, where the humans present are much less likely to be able to freak out and successfully move from freaking out to doing anything along the lines of "nuke the rogue daeva and hope the summoner's within the blast radius". Cam visits his dad and gets a letter to his mom asking that she show up at his dad's house. He makes useful things in ways that won't be too traceable (if his dad's fridge has slightly more bacon and cheese and apples to share with the neighbors a few days in a row, who'll notice?), as a short-term intervention while awaiting more acculturation to the way Limbo works so they won't upset any very delicate balances. The portals to the other worlds can wait until there are actual plans on what to do with them. And possibly until their alts have more free time to help. In the meantime, Cam has his parents again.
"When he was alive he was a small-town chief of police. When he died his thing was his house - the house you will see is basically the exact same structure I spent summers in as a kid and moved into when I was seventeen. He's pretty quiet, pretty sensible - I think he'd get along with your dad, actually. Since he got a house he has to interact with his neighbors more than he probably would if they didn't need the stuff that the house generates so much."
"... Well. Yes, but - if that's all we wanted Zane to do, every now and then, he'd be okay with it, because he's got other things to do besides just making water. If we put him on a strict 'go make water every day' schedule, of course he'd balk, but if it's just a once a week thing, that would be fine."
"It's an excellent shortcut, absolutely. If it comes down to it I could encase populated Limbo in a gigantic dome or several so it could self-contain a water cycle and then it wouldn't need much added maintenance. There could be little external gravitic supports. But for today - you want to meet my dad?"
And so they go through the portal into Charlie's Limbo house. Charlie is in it. There is a football game of some kind playing on the TV in the background and eggs frying on the stove. Cam gets a hug as soon as he's stepped into the kitchen. "Dad," he says, "this is Adana, my girlfriend. Adana, this is my dad Charlie."
"The demonic terminology is probably best translated as 'upgraded', for people who become demons, and something - more or less untranslateable for people who become angels, and it varies how the languages feel about fairies, and I think I'd render the word for becoming a Limboite as 'defaulting'."
"...Blisterbutts. Is that a reference to the tails, the lakes of fire, or something more obscure? And the words for angels tend to aim at - you know what a Mary Sue is, in literature? Characters who may or may not be written such that they actually do no wrong, but who the story considers paragons, and who are consequently really annoying. One language also calls you 'fluff-for-brains'."
"It's pretty grand, actually. My alts are even all very nice - even Prime, the one who is five hundred years old and also basically incapable of not saying things sarcastically. I'm just - occasionally frustrated by how they're all men. I'm sure there are girl versions of us, somewhere. I can't be the only one."
"Ha. Sure, it can soundalike. Uh - well. Okay, you brought about a huge 'revelation' and got everyone to know about magic. I - made plans for a space station and threw you at them and then got you to terraform Mars? And also lots of infrastructure, which if I'm lucky didn't collapse after I became an angel. Hoooow do I put that in a simple one word form that goes with yours...?"
The visit continues pleasantly, until the daeva couple bid their goodbyes to Cam's father and depart. Adana - is still kind of bothered by the lack of other female Adarins present. She decides that it's a good idea (and, it might even make another alt easier to find, considering they're looking for something different now) to go present this idea to a mage.
Cam's welcome to come along, if he likes?