"Oh."

"If you want you can testify at the sentencing hearing."

"For the green?"

"Yes."

"...how are you going to try her for killing me when I'm alive?"

"Murder's still illegal even though we have resurrection, and there's not any doubt you were murdered."

"I don't think it's illegal in Rivik unless you kill enough of us that stuff doesn't get done."

"When a country won't prosecute murders that happen in connection with alien contact we do it for them. It's been the law for decades, it's mildly controversial in some cases but not in this one."

"...where is it controversial?"

"If the aliens just don't prosecute crime in general because they're anarchists or something, some people feel like it's unfair to - impose government in a context where people fundamentally don't even have the concept that any government could ever be legitimate. It doesn't matter that murderers mostly don't think the specific court trying them is legitimate, that's just a fact about how people tend to feel about getting in trouble for things that had social approval locally, but some people feel like it matters if they've just never encountered the idea that there could be a body who punishes people for harming others."

"Are there a lot of anarchist aliens?"

"There are trillions and trillions of aliens. There aren't a lot percentage-wise but it comes up every few years and is, like I said, mildly controversial. But Rivikni murderers who just refuse to accept that their victims are people? That is literally exactly what a justice system is for, putting unrepentant murderers somewhere where they can't hurt anyone else."

"Oh."

"You don't have to agree about that. If you want to testify that they should get a shorter sentence - or a longer one - the courts take that into account."

"...I never really thought about it. It was never going to come up."

Nod. "The normal murder sentence if they're not sorry and there aren't extenuating circumstances is ten Amentan years."

"Okay."

"There's a hotel right near here that hosts newly resurrected people for free for a month, if you want to stay there a while and read about things."

"I won't know where to start."

"There are also lots of journalists who want to interview you, if you want that."

"- because I'm on the news like a dead pet?"

"...because everything we've heard about the way Rivik treats reds is really upsetting and confusing and people are outraged and want to know what they can do to fix it, yeah."

"I guess I could be interviewed."

"Should I let the highest bidder in or do you want to choose some other way?"

"Bidder?"