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"A daeva that wants to wreak havoc won't kill their summoner," Cam adds. "They'll render the summoner unconscious and put them somewhere safe, so they don't get dismissed. Dead summoner equals instant dismissal, and you have to be conscious to non-instantly dismiss a summon. Tempermentally speaking - I don't think demons are, as a population, meaner than angels or fairies are. But demons are harder to pay. You can get a fairy to rearrange your furniture for a batch of cookies, because the fairy would have to make or buy the cookies back home, and rearranging your furniture is easier than that. You can get an angel to change stuff for you in exchange for anything complicated or that the angel doesn't have the skills to whip up, because angel magic requires doing your own detail work, an angel can't just create a houseplant or a new videogame for themselves like," he snaps his fingers, "that. The things you can produce to interest a demon are few and far between. Most of us don't want to make phone calls. So the demons who are going to bother with summons are the ones that want - let's say 'intangibles'. You are extremely lucky you got me."