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Paul and the kids stared back at him."Rescue party," Dem explained. "Get through here, please. It’s easiest to send you all back together."Paul and the kids stared back at him.Dem sighed. He went back through. "You," he said, randomly flicking a finger at Conor. "Get in thereand show ‘em it’s safe.""Why me?" Conor asked suspiciously."Why not?""I’ll go," Alex said, and stepped through the portal. "It’s safe," he told the others at the other end, andthey finally got up and moved into the cell, once Winston could be separated from the awesomeastronomy programme on TV that was almost over, just give him another five minutes please, please,please, ow!Dem changed the settings another two times and extracted a willing Griffin and an unwilling Scott fromtheir various locations."All right," he said cheerfully, oblivious to the glares that the latest two entries were getting. "Would youlike the dead people back alive, too? It’s Opposite Day, so I’ve got to do nice things to destroy themultiverse instead of not-nice things to destroy the multiverse. And besides, it’s easier, because then allI have to do is reverse the thing that brought you here, and you’ll all go home. Or else the dead peoplewill get home dead, or, if I take the trouble to send you home individually, they’ll just stay missingforever."There were no objections, so Dem went off to do the work. He was immortal. He lived millennia. Thesewere the little things that made existence interesting.An easy bit of time travel got him back just after Jonathan Harker and Eddie Kasalivich had been happilymurdered by Griffin. He bribed the Soylent Green folks with spinach and got the two bodies, kickedthem with the Boot of Life and dumped the two very confused people back in the cell before going backthrough the portal.The Shakespeare bot relinquished Hamlet and Don John after Dem bribed it with spinach.The workers at IBHA did not like spinach, and told Dem he’d have to wait until Jack Traven finished hissentence. So he skipped a while into the future, was there for Jack’s arrival, let him know that he wasno longer Alex’s dog and could he please get back on two legs. Turned out the IBHA folks likedbroccoli, so Dem bribed them with that and got Jack transferred back to his body at the point before he’ddied, freefalling through the void of the isolated bubble of hyperspace.Dem caught him and teleported him back, wondered why he still bothered with the portal, turned it off tosave batteries, and left Jack there with the others to be confused and wonder why Griffin was smiling athim and why Alex didn’t seem to care.Dem time travelled back to the world where Shane and co. had found themselves. He dropped into thescene invisible and waited until Fred had started eating Jjaks and the others had left, then bribed Fredwith spinach and teleported Jjaks away to a futuristic hospital in another world. He kicked him with theBoot of Life, followed by the Boot of Stop Screaming Please, then let the doctors work on him. Demskipped to the future and collected him, fully healed, then went back to the cell and let Jjaks join theconfused people.Dem took a short trip back to one of his homes, where he apologised to Donnie for abducting him andforcing him to work on his spinach farm. Upon angry retorts, he kicked him with the Boot of StopScreaming Please and teleported him away.As an afterthought, because it was Opposite Day, Dem dropped by a store en route and bought apacket of Silk Cuts. He tossed the cigarettes ("embrace your British side") to a surprised and gratefulJohn Constantine and dumped Donnie there to join them.Dem made his way to the frozen planet of Hagindaz and made a few more near rescues, pre-deadwhere he could. The Boot of Life worked only for a few days after death if they were still sufficientlyintact; it did nothing for exploded people or those who had since turned to skeletons. Bribing afterlife