At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"Could be looking for histories or newspapers or something. My guess is that they no longer have the preference about the language, but they did when they taught us and I didn't say 'I promise to keep this secret for as long as I think you'd still care' -"

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"I just wanted to get a better overview of the place. I guess you could translate things that seem representative."

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"I'd be happy to."

 

Records of an academic back-and-forth over how to handle climate change, statelessly! Stuff on the space program! Popular novel! (The plot is that someone learns the arbitration company they're part of is provoking fights to get payouts from a rival arbitration company which is eating into their market share). 

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...Cam reads a David Friedman book for dessert. He would like more space program stuff if that's okay?

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He'd be happy to!

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Yay. Space.

 

News breaks of a daeva zoo where people can go see real live fairies and angels and demons! Wow! What the fuck!

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"Yeah, what the fuck - that's illegal, right, you can't just cage people -"

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"They're still figuring out how laws apply to daeva and some yahoos decided to test it out, I guess."

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"Well. I'm kind of inclined to go convince them not to do that."

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"Will this involve stabbing, I'm less familiar with the other parts of your repertoire."

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"I have spent a very small fraction of my lifespan stabbing. I'd at least start by offering them lots of money, it's astonishing how many problems you can solve that way."

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"I don't think I want anyone to learn the lesson 'kidnap daeva, receive bribes'."

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"The law'll catch up, but in the meantime there are people in cages."

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"Oh, no, part of the attraction is that daeva can be kept in place with no fences or locks and people can go up and pat them."

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"I can just go straight for - not stabbing, but cornering and smiling at people like I'm very good at stabbing?"

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"I don't know if that will have an effect other than to get people after you for an involuntary psych hold, which I assume is just as bad as an arrest?"

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"If they got me, yeah, but I am not okay with this thing continuing to exist so the level of acceptable risk isn't zero."

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"I still think you can improve on slasher smiles. Even if you have a good slasher smile."

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"It would surprise me a lot if we hit on the best idea in five minutes of voicing them, yes. Okay. Short of murder, they have to want to dismiss the daeva, right - could influence them to want that but that's shitty -"

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"With telepathy? Yeah."

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"Or songs. You don't want to bribe them in case there'll be more - what about bribing one to snap a carefully selected daeva's binding and then the daeva causes nonlethal havoc and people get scared off zoos?"

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"You'd have to carefully select the daeva, and they're not letting them talk. I suppose perhaps you could telepath them, does that get more telephone-like if they know it's happening?"

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"Yeah but listening just to what people want to send varies by person how easy it is - I could tell them how it works and they could signal if they agree to communicate like that. But we should probably get Matt if we're doing things that depend on snap character judgments with lots of lives at stake."

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"Noted." Cam notes it. "Are any of you a lawyer or is that not one of your collected occupations?"

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"None of us are a lawyer. We should probably pay some, if they aren't all over this already."

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