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There doesn't seem to be any understanding of manners on this boat. Twice now I've had people abruptly disconnect on me in the middle of a stirring discussion of how utterly imperfect their grasp of reality¹ or revenge² is.

Did your mothers never teach you it is impolite to hang up on a djinni?

If not that, then someone must have taught you it was unwise, surely.

Though there are beacons of hope amidst the sea of rude. A lupophobic, a well-mannered compulsive talker, and an anti-environmentalists who mocks the sanctity of marriage. ³ They have potential and there are sure to be others.

1 - This involved mock indignation for the sake of magicians. It could hardly be a serious sentiment as it came from an otherwise acceptable young woman. If she truly took offense, then my primary concern becomes the state of sanity that any on this boat possess.

2 - This being a disagreement about vengeance and patience. All I recall is something about claiming to be a God. He could be any magician, as I have known many to make that claim. They all end up the same way: Squished under some afrit or another.

3 - Being an affront to many mainstream religions simply by existing, I have a special place in my essence for anyone else that contravenes the religious norm.

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Oh, magicians. I prefer witches, they have better manners.

I wouldn't say I was resting (Hell is a very busy place. Paperwork, paperwork for everything!).

Hell, huh? That doesn't happen to be a suburb of London, does it? The whole area is reminiscent of the human concept.

Thankfully, no (tough I may or may not have had something to do with the creations or suburbs). I meant literal Hell.

Literal Hell? That's a construct of human fantasy where I'm from. ¹

1 - That doesn't stop me from tapping into its standard artistic interpretations. Brimstone is one of my favourites, for that smell a magician just can't get out of his clothes.

[ Lucifer can't concieve a world without his realm. He's that full of himself. ]

But how are sinners punished then? Do all the humans of your world go to the same afterlife?

London's a modern hell. Have you heard of a commute? Humans sardined into tiny forms of transport, all going to a dreary existence in servitude of the ruling class. Why look forward to death's hell when you have all that to live up to?