Max exhales. His brain has stopped producing obvious sorts of questions. It is time to take a moment to deliberately produce non-obvious questions.

What is the major consequence of this new information? Parallel worlds, okay. He has a semantic explanation of summoning- provided Cam is successful in neutralizing the dangers of open investigation, it shouldn't be too much trouble to find a lab with instruments for measuring the underlying mechanics. That goes on the back burner... or...

"Er- you said you got shot- do you know who did it, and how they found out you were summoning daeva? If it's just a matter of not being too overt, that's one thing, but I want to know what kind of safety measures I ought to be using if I'm doing my own investigation."