At some point we'll have to go to them and ask policy but let's not do it immediately. The restaurants can be a starting point.

Yeah.

Let me know if you get anywhere with memories.

I'm keeping an eye out. Been mostly boring stuff lately. Well, relatively boring, I didn't use to have terrible taste in books or anything.

Okay. Are you going to write a fiction book about it, see if anyone else with the experience comes forward?

Yeah, that still seems like a good idea. Maybe not an entire novel, I could do a short story.

Save some time, yes.

Makes it easier to publish in a periodical too.

I'll trust in your expertise. They're back in Tirion. Good skill.

Thanks.

He nods and heads back to work.

So does Kib. Careful etching of tiny letters into the scribe's back.

And in the evening, evil Governor?

If Maitimo would like to play evil Governor Kib can be persuaded.

Maitimo apparently finds it relaxing.

"When whatever happens, happens," he says, "I want to not be caught off guard because I have already thought of it. Or you have."

"Interesting approach."

"Might not be productive, but I'm not sure anything could be."

There's a lot you can do with the ability to erase memories; run a conversation a dozen times until it goes the way you want, get people cooperative by making them forget their reasons for hating you - can't generally get people to make oaths by torturing them, often can by torturing their loved ones...

...turn said loved ones against one by having somebody forget they exist and act in ways they do verifiably mean to but only without the restraining influences, drop people who think they're mid-crisis-situation on things that were not crises a moment ago, make them forget oaths they made and thread the needle between crippling them and steering them into risks they wouldn't take otherwise, solve PR disasters where they remain applicable with the wave of a hand...

You delight me too.

Would Kib like to be carried off? Because he's not in a particularly kissing mood but he would be happy to carry Kib off.