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There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
Finally she seems done when the babysitter sends her a picture of himself and the daughter safely on the train.
"They're supposed to, and there's also supposed to be a social worker right there who can do this kind of thing. I'll check where they were."
"An investigation," she snorts. "Like the one over the plumber? I can't trust this - alien monstrous thing you work for to - do anything, your priorities are literally from space."
"I think you'd have about accurate expectations if you thought we cared about the same things as Amentans except we thought reds are people and killing them is murder."
"It's just not something I can assume would come out of an otherwise sane morality. I wouldn't have been any more surprised if you'd said 'oh it's all right that your parents are going to hurt her children aren't people' or - 'we consider grandparents' rights very important' or - or - 'she's in their house and it's a windy day so' -"
"I understand how you could have been confused but now that you have an explanation, can you just - imagine you had met an Elf in the hallway getting back from your stressful day and murdered them with a nearby sword, and assume we're thinking of it exactly like that?"
"Well, there are contact instructions on your computer for your lawyer, various civil rights organizations, various media outlets, my office, and the prison complaint office."