She doesn't see how she can wear clothes over her wings and still fly.

Oh. Well, some people do patrols visible and that's fine too. It's important that you be known to sometimes do invisible patrols but it's not important that all patrols be invisible, you know?

Okay! She will patrol visibly.

Sounds good!

She takes the map. She flies the route.

No one is there. It's not a very large stretch of land, objectively measured. Probably can't be if you need to patrol the whole thing so frequently.

Then she will return and report this fairly shortly.

Can she come do it again in an hour?

"My time sense isn't perfect, but if someone lets me know when I should go again, yes. Where can I go to get dew?"

The tree over there is the one everyone's using right now. 

She goes over to that tree and drinks up and goes back to her room.

She has a note.

There are a few different ways to ensnare people unfairly - where by "fairly" I mean something like "if they come on your land and eat your food they cannot reasonably have expected this to have no consequences". If you're an exceptionally gifted singer, singing to them will do it, and if you're an exceptionally gifted artist, you can design something that'll do that on sight - but both of those take gifts most courts don't have in their possession. (Relevantly, you need to indebt people enough that you have affordance to take them prisoner; that's actually a fairly sizable amount of debt.) 

There are only some people who can do that, and fewer who will, but the usual remedy is that your court complains to their court and you are released and they are scolded for embarrassing their court and everything is fine. If you are known not to have a court, there's no way for that to be remedied. A reasonably smart person without a court will try to move faster than the gossip that they don't have a court (you can't fail to disclose this, it's the first question asked when you cross someone's territory), and negotiate for passage and for occasional dew, and as long as they do that they are unlikely to encounter trouble. But at some point they will fail at moving faster than the gossip and at some point after that someone will decide they want them. 

This is of course not always deadly but it will be eventually, especially if you have dangerous entanglements and are accordingly unwise to keep.

Huh. Is Lohte around at the moment?

At his desk.

"Why would anyone bother to catch her," she says, "if she's too much of a liability to keep and they can find that out by asking?"

Well, it's not very often you can torture someone to death for no reason, some people are into that.

"Oh, of course."

And there are other uses - dangerous missions, trying to get them entangled with your enemies so you can destroy them all at once, things like that.

"Ah."

It'd be better if they were somewhere you could keep an eye on her or kill them, but I take it that's not straightforward.

"Well, I could tell you where she was when I left but that was a while ago."

And if she's smart she's moving as quickly as possible for the reasons discussed earlier. I can mention to our neighbors that I want her if they see her.

"If that seems to make sense to you. I could draw her if that helps."

That would be helpful.

She holds out her hand for paper.