" - uh, I was taking randoms and this woman says 'whatever you want to put peoples' limbs back on before they bleed out so of course I said yes and their building had blown up and they didn't have a list of medical angels or time to wait for 'em so she just cut them free of the building with a hacksaw and I knew how to do anaesthetic by then but of course I couldn't say so and if I'd finished med school I'd have known how to do the amputations cleanly too - and people died - before I arrived, no one died once I took the summons, but still - and once I got back to Hell I hid in my room and did med school and had Cam check my work remotely - so if it ever happened again and the binding were looser I could actually help, because I could never ever live with myself if people died because I hadn't learned fast enough -"

"This doesn't seem healthy," says Niari.

"Well, now I've finished med school."

"There are so many things I know nothing about because I am four years old from a Stone Age culture, I'm going to go back to my reading list," Tireh says.

"I know that feeling," he says sympathetically. "You'll catch up."

"You were older than any member of my species has ever been and from the Industrial Revolution!"

"There's not much to catch up on between where you started and 1802. Most of the things humans did between the Stone Age and 1802 were bad ideas. Religion: don't bother. Crusades: super don't bother. Colonialism: ehhh. I hear good things about metalworking but then -" he makes a pretty gold goblet in midair and catches it - "uh, you're not likely to actually need it."

"I'm not sure I want us to just have stuff appear and not know how we'd go about making it by not-appearing!"

"It might be kind of hard to avoid? Like, I bet no one in Revelation knows how to make a computer. Non-demonically, I mean. There are people who know very detailed pieces, but the whole thing?"

"Really? That's weird."

"Specialization. It's very important. - and had been thought of by 1802 so I guess that disproves my earlier argument."

"Also, like, this morning I didn't know what shoes were, or that you could start fires by means other than songburning a little lightning to make tinder catch."

"Okay, fair, I will concede that shoes are a good idea."

"Shall we head in?" he says to Niari.

Niari nods.

Inside they go.

Fëanáro is still delightedly expounding on the physics behind lightleapers. Timothy and Cam are working side-by-side. "I hear you've been making a demons list?"

"Yeah, I figured with the wait times for randoms getting so high the least we could do was have reliable, well-sourced information on specific summons and talking to thousands of demons sounded like great fun so why not? It was also good cover for talking to the ones who found out about Beach. Hello," he adds to Niari. "I'm Timothy. Thanks so much for coming."

"Niari. That's a good idea, Davidson's lists have been overtaxed and they're not keeping up."

"Thanks. I want to do a bit more screening before I release it but I think it'll be good to have another option on the market. Did Minor suggest to you -"

"That we check whether those of us from societies that didn't need to outlaw slavery still have the instincts to notice troublemakers? Yes, he did."

"I bet you'll do okay? I feel like the thing I'm doing is just asking myself 'what does this person want' and I feel like if you were incapable of noticing when people wanted terrible things that would have impaired you at some point even among Elves."

"If it'll help you make your recommendations more confidently we'll all take a look. If you have a bad feeling about someone but they don't have incidents -"

"No recommendation, I trust my instincts and there are a lot of ways to hurt people without ever having gotten a complaint filed."

"Davidson's doesn't screen that closely; it's mostly a way to match up skills with needs and payments with interests."

"Which makes sense but since the screening isn't really an added cost I may as well make sure I'm keeping people as safe as I can. - I notice things like that very quickly and Cam tracks daeva incidents out of personal interest anyway -"