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Paloma doesn't let herself cry anymore.  It doesn't help. But she wants to.

Some of the girls wanted to hand out the last of the pamplets, to show that the Badger couldn't be ended so easily. Some of the girls just left. Some of the girls went with Haria to Osirion. 

Paloma stayed in Cheliax. Her job is not done. There is one thing left.

She walks to the Constitutional Convention in her old rags, and puts on her badger jacket only just before she approaches the lawyer. 

"Lawyer Lluïsa?", she asks.

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"Ah, the Badger-Urchin." Why is she even more alliterative today.

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"Eriape has been Abducted! The Lair Looted! You have to sue the adventurers! For-" (she checks a piece of paper) "Tortious Interference! Trespassing! Conversion!" (the exclamation marks are on her notes) "-and whatever else you can think of! And whoever else you can think of too!"

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Yeah, wouldn't that be nice.

"I can conduct Negotiations, but—sue in what Court? Osirian Court?"

Morally they are the most abjectly wretched of tortfeasors, but can stopgap mercantile arbitration deal with this? Will it agree to deal with this?

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"I thought Cheliax, but any court you like! The Badgers will pay- they control her bank accounts now- and I have an advance for you." She pulls a Medium Bag of Money from her satchel.  

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Oh good, still a paying client. If not one who cares for such formalities as bills.

"The chief Trouble with Cheliax is that it has No Courts; there are Criminal Trials, of course, but True Law is in Abeyance, all Businessmen and Traders carefully avoiding Dispute where they can and purchasing Abadaran Arbitration where they cannot. A Contract is a little like a Law unto Itself and those are still drafted, but Cautiously, "

Lluïsa's actual business pitch going forward, now that the chaos of the past week is over and she might hypothetically have business development time, is 'this lawyer, the famous one from the high-profile trial, is intimately familiar with the madness coming out of the constitutional convention! really your best bet for a contract that has any chance whatsoever of holding up in whatever mad courts!'

"Though perhaps the first step is for me to Establish Courts. I do not take Bribes in my capacity as a Delegate, they would of course be Fair Courts." Fair courts can still structurally favor moneyed liches, it's not too bad a constraint.

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"That seems like a good idea. How can I help? I am the Badger Organization Representative for Cheliax, which does pay- but this is the most important thing I we can do."

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