"Well, then maybe it wouldn't help so much in this case."

"I'm glad she has a court to be in somewhere I don't have to be around her."

"Seems for the best, on the whole. What's wrong with her exactly?"

"Mostly that she snuck up on me and tore my wing in half in my sleep."

"Yikes."

"She felt very urgently that we needed to have less debt between us and that this was the way to do it."

"How much debt was there?"

"I don't know! A lot, apparently!"

"Well, normal people discuss that, they don't attack people in their sleep."

"That would have been much better, yes."

"Sorry your introduction to us went so poorly."

"I'm glad your brother, uh - well, I'm not really glad he had me caught in a net, but everything except that was well done."

"Usually is."

"I wonder why the net, I should ask him."

"You should, I really couldn't guess."

"At the time it seemed perfectly at home among other bizarre fairy behavior!"

"It's possible he just didn't want to take chances until he'd actually talked to you except with someone with unknown capabilities it's really just a different kind of chance."

"And it's not like I'd hurt anybody who'd just talked to me."

Shrug. "I'm no good at people stuff. You'd have to ask him."

"I will, I'm just thinking aloud. I'm not sure I have a good use for any of this stuff," she goes on, glancing at her letters, "but it seems a pity to refuse to do somebody a favor just because they have to offer me something for it and don't have anything I need, presumably they wouldn't offer if they wouldn't rather make the trade and it's not their fault there's this stupid thing preventing me from just being nice..."

"You could accept and then ignore the stuff if you wanted but you could also ask for something else. I doubt they listed everything they'd conceivably be wlling to trade."

"Your brother suggested I start collecting prisoners but I do not know what I'd do with them."

"In that case it's kind of a weird suggestion."

"No, I know why I'd want them, it'd be so other people wouldn't be horrible to them, I just don't know how to confidently operate the system well enough to be sure it'd be a net improvement."

"- I mean, that doesn't sound that hard? I'm sure there are some prisoners who are really dangerous but I think most of them are probably just dumb or unlucky or were badly attached at a bad time. You could just give them cozy cells with reading material and permission to have neutral interactions with each other and it'd be an improvement."