New Working Environment

[rockeye_stonetoe]

It's an average day. Nick the fairy is poking at one of his little electronics projects, paying attention to the incoming summons with half a brain, trying to grab one. But while a lot of fairies get summoned, equally many are looking out for summons. It takes a while unless you're really focusing on it.

He starts an automated test and gives the stream of summons his full attention, and gets one a moment later.

Comments

[rockeye_stonetoe]

Sigh. He can't just leave, he'll be stuck on Earth. "If I demonstrate abilities that your 'magic' cannot quickly and easily imitate will you start to actually listen?"

[impetuous_force]

"I'll start to call the fucking USADI if I can't reduce you to ash myself if you twitch wrong, the only reason you're still standing there without goons coming after you is all you've done is talk and it's just barely possible that you're a mutant from a neutral species or some kind of undocumented somethingorother."

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"What's with the fucking hostility, seriously, I'm the one that's stuck if you won't unsummon me. And I still have no clue what the USADI is besides, apparently, military."

[impetuous_force]

"I did not summon you it's a divination circle. United States Anti Demon Initiative? Black uniforms, stupid hats, stompy boots, ring a bell? You speak English with an American accent, where the fuck would you have got that without hearing of the USADI?"

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Daeva get their summoners' languages, don't you know." He switches accents. "I can also do BBC," switch, "Australia," back to American English, "Whatever. Demons are nasty characters, sure, but all you have to do is not summon them."

[impetuous_force]

"Which I was not doing. Because this. Is a divination circle. Observe. The compass points. What are you if you don't like the catchall term?"

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"I am a daeva. Specifically a fairy. Demons are another kind of daeva, angels a third. Okay, there is a fundamental disconnect here, this argument is not productive. Just. Dismiss me. Focus on wanting me gone, and I'll be gone, out of your hair."

[impetuous_force]

"Have you or have you not caught on to the fact that I think you are up to something and do not care to take instructions from supernatural creatures who are up to something. Is that not clear."

[rockeye_stonetoe]

He makes a noise of wordless frustration. It would not help to say that the other way to go home is to kill her. It won't help. Don't say it.

[impetuous_force]

"Now, I haven't heard of fairies outside of cutesy kids' stories so I'm not sure how long it's going to take me to find reference materials on what the heck you are. If you'd like to give up this con as a bad job and shoo, this'd be a good time."

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"I. Can't. Leave. You have to send me away. You have magic, do you have some kind of bullshit lie detection? Because neither of us wants me to follow you home and hover around until you dismiss me."

[impetuous_force]

She sighs. "I could maybe put something together with what's in my bag that'd do it." She opens up her bag and rummages. When she leans over her shirt hikes up enough that he can see a water pistol on her belt.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

He doesn't care about the water pistol, he's mostly fuming about what he's still convinced is an extremely insistent practical joke.

He pulls out a tablet computer and starts scribbling notes about his project, before it's even further out of working memory.

[impetuous_force]

"Izzat a co'puter?" she asks around a lens she's holding in her teeth while she sorts through baggied herbs and vials of things with both hands.

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Yes. Or did you want me to wait and answer after you cast Detect Lies?"

[impetuous_force]

She finds the oil she's looking for and takes the lens out of her mouth. "Why do you have a computer?"

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Because I like video games and CAD software."

[impetuous_force]

She doesn't have a rebuttal to that, but still seems to find it deeply strange. She mutters to herself as she assembles her various arcane objects. Finally, she smears the lens with a drop of oil and mutters further over it and then holds it over her eyes. "Right, tell a lie, see if this is working."

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"I don't have wings."

[impetuous_force]

She winces. "And what's your story of what you're doing here?"

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"I answered a summons in the usual way, everything felt normal, until I appeared in front of you and we had that little standoff. I have not lied to you. Except for the wings thing, which doesn't really count since it was a demonstration."

[impetuous_force]

"Explain 'the usual way'."

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"...I get a little note in the back of my head that says 'a summon you could answer', and I pull on it, usually not fast enough before another fairy gets it, and I appear in a circle and work out a deal and carry out the deal and get paid and then get unsummoned and go home. Would you mind explaining your definition of 'demon' since mine is only one species?"

[impetuous_force]

"Maybe after the duration on this runs out. Summoned from where?"

[rockeye_stonetoe]

"Fairyland."