At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Mmmhmmm."

 

Phone calls. 

They will not cooperate in enforcing U.S. drug law this way. They will not cooperate in enforcing U.S. immigration law this way. If this becomes too complicated they'll just do it on Mars as their own polity. 

 

Fairy is appointed a public defender.

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(the existence of angels and demons should have killed drug laws dead and driven a stake through their heart, the fuck, USA, get with the program)

Revelation makes a subdued video in which he expresses his deepest sympathies with the victim of the attack and says that with some assistance he's got a daeva arrest procedure and the fairy in question will not be able to hurt anyone else. He would be eager to compensate a surrogate to retry the lost pregnancy from an earlier stage.

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People are so so glad the fairy has been arrested what's the procedure how does that work. Are they arresting those rapist demons also, are they arresting that angel who left a woman with half her face?

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Cam is not personally operating the prison and can't perform the summonses, he just designed the binding. Further questions should be referred to - Matt who should further questions be referred to - this toll-free number, apparently.

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Matt recruits some people to answer the phone. "My old boss made such a face - I didn't see him, but I could hear him over the phone. 'I thought you retired,' he said. I looked at the binding, it's - everyone will be safe and the daeva won't be more miserable than necessary to keep them safe -"

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Nod.

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"Thank you."

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"- you're welcome?"

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" - I, uh, rather don't do things unless asked, and I probably should do more things."

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"...asking you for help with a response was Elvis's idea."

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"Well. We got something. Hopefully word can spread quickly and daeva be deterred."

 

 

The fairy's public defender explains what is going on several more times.

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The fairy's position is that she cannot be arrested, she is a fairy and you can't arrest fairies.

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"...okay. You have been summoned for a jail summons, does that work?"

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"I didn't mean to answer!"

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"Uh huh. The jail summons might be for a few hundred years."

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"That's like forever!"

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"Torture and murder are very serious crimes."

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"I'm a fairy, if you don't want fairies to do whatever we want you're supposed to use bindings not jail this is fucked up!"

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(The dead woman reaches out to Cam to say that they might take him up on the surrogate later.)

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Of course, whenever she feels ready. He's so sorry that happened to her.

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My own fault, I missed a line of the binding.

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He wasn't going to say that part. I wish you'd gotten a better fairy, all the same.

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You stopped her, she'll never hurt anyone again.

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The credit for the idea really belongs to one of my Elf friends but I'm glad I could contribute something. And he lets the conversation peter out.

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"You didn't mention your arrest procedure. Don't want other people doing it over stupider stuff?" Rivka asks him while they're working on colony-planning later that week.

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