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[eudaimonikos]

Oh. This is some kind of demon interrogation, isn't it?

[He thought we were just having a conversation.]

Not here, no.

[counterblows]

[It's never "just" a conversation with Agent Washington.]

Not here.

So you have at home.

[eudaimonikos]

Not necessarily stabbed. Strictly speaking, I'm far more likely to have my atoms scattered to the suns. That's a traditional demon punishment. But you know, if Shawn had the opportunity to stab me...

I smuggled some humans out of Hell, and that was very frowned upon by everyone.

[counterblows]

That sounds like a nice thing to have done for them.

[eudaimonikos]

They're doing fine. Made it all the way back to Earth, for a while!

[counterblows]

The implication that it was temporary doesn't make it sound like very much of a success.

[eudaimonikos]

Well, some other demons followed us eventually, and we had to flee back to the afterlife. But they're safe again for the moment - turns out it was never possible for them to earn their way into heaven, so the Judge granted me a reprieve while I try to prove why that sucks.

[counterblows]

You realize a lot of these concepts are borderline myth where other people come from, right?

[eudaimonikos]

That doesn't mean they aren't real for me. It's a multiversal hub, these things happen.

[counterblows]

You drop these kinds of things on everyone unannounced?

[Just saying, all right? Wash, he can handle it. He can always handle it. It's just that he's, to his knowledge, the exception as opposed to the rule.]

[eudaimonikos]

I mean, yeah
That's my entire life
Should I be giving everybody a gentle crash course before I start conversations?

[counterblows]

Depending on who you're talking to.

[eudaimonikos]

Nobody's freaked out yet
I'm not interested in pretending to be a regular human, that would just be a vast web of lies

[counterblows]

You still apparently have to get used to being one, it sounds like. Between the eating and sleeping.

[eudaimonikos]

Those aren't the only things that make up a human!
They're usually pretty emphatic about that

[counterblows]

They're right.
Is there more to being a demon than heaven and hell?

[eudaimonikos]

I don't know


We really don't do anything outside of our jobs
No hobbies, no friendships, no leisure time
Don't even have any personal space, everywhere you go is The Office
Everything I have that isn't about that is because of the humans

It's still mostly about heaven and hell, though
Just from a different angle

[counterblows]

Sounds like arriving here was quite the adjustment.

[eudaimonikos]

For everyone, I'm sure

[counterblows]

Sure.
But some more than others.

[eudaimonikos]

What are you looking for here, man?

[counterblows]

Just making conversation on our brand new phones.

[Gathering intel, more like.]

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, sure, that sounds real.

I'm not going to do anything ~*~ evil ~*~, okay?

[counterblows]

You realize that now one of these islands is going to make you do something evil, and I'm going to hold you to that.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh come on, people aren't morally responsible for things the islands make them do. That's basic.