"They will hurt her and probably have already and you're just leaving her there without me over a red."

"Have you written anything up about who you'd like to have custody in the case where you are indisposed or in an accident of some kind?"

"Her father gets custody if I die but he doesn't know how they are and he's out of the country."

"And that wouldn't apply if you were arrested?"

"If I were arrested by cops and not abducted by aliens they'd have asked me if I needed to make any childcare arrangements and I could have hired a babysitter or sent her to sleep over with her friends, we were only at my parents' because I needed a place for us to both go on short notice and the hotel was full and if I was there I could watch her."

"And you can't make arrangements to hire a babysitter remotely?"

"My parents will turn them away."

"We could go back together, hire a babysitter, see that your daughter is set up with the babysitter, and then come back here."

"Yes - thank you - thank you -"

"Of course." She types some things. "They'll be here in a minute."

"Who?"

"Teleporter who can cover us for the trip."

"They could just bring her to her father - no, her school's in Rivik, better not to interrupt if I can get a sitter..."

"We should probably think about long-term arrangements as well, but it sounds like getting her to a better environment right now needs to happen and then we can worry about other things once she's safe."

Nod nod.

Teleporter arrives.

The green calms down considerably when she can summon up an emergency orange sitter and tell him to go get the kid with a flurry of extra instructions ("she's got a key to my place, her favorites are in the fridge, she takes the 4 train to school, she can stay after till dinnertime, she needs to be picked up but she can go there on her own, tell her I love her and I didn't mean to disappear and I'll do what I can to see her again and I'm so sorry, here is extra budget for a counselor if she's shaken up she might be they're awful, here's her dad's email but he's out of the country, if you don't hear from me and run out of money and her dad won't pay you his brother lives upcountry doing weird art in a barn and it's four hours' walk from the nearest train station when the shuttles aren't running and they seldom are but he'll take her -")

"There's funding we can apply for," social worker says. 

"Monster charity," mutters the green. "Can I see her -"

"I can testify that you should get visitation. Tomorrow you can see her."

She nods. She sends the babysitter more instructions and waits for confirmation.

Her escort waits with her.

Finally she seems done when the babysitter sends her a picture of himself and the daughter safely on the train.

Back they go. "I'm sorry we didn't get that set up sooner."

"Real cops ask right away if you need to make childcare arrangements."