"Groping is the salient example, not the only thing in the category, but, uh, approximately. There are non-'specifically-asking-for-it' ways to invite it, like, I don't get on people's cases if they have long-term consenting partners and their relationship therewith involves occasional unannounced ass-grabbing."

"Have you got a list of all of the things in the category?"

"Not handy, but if you really want I can attempt to get some written references and try to turn them into something like a comprehensive list."

"I would really want that, yes."

"This might take me some doing because this thing didn't work and that has some implications," he kicks his speaker where it is slightly dented among the bowling balls, "and would be easier if my hands were free."

"I have some hesitations about freeing you before I have the slightest idea what's liable to anger you."

"Well, I suppose you could attach my feet to something before letting my hands go, if for some reason you think my threat potential is located in my ability to move around the room."

"Right now our worst case scenario is that the survivors head out to another court that I have reason to think will take them. If you can move, it gets worse."

Cam waves a foot in his direction.

He gestures at someone to his side. "Tie him up." And to someone else, more quietly, "tell everyone that my recommendation is that they go to their rooms alone and not do anything or touch anything and certainly don't interact with each other."

"I'd love to tell you that's ov- metaphorical overkill but maybe the very first kind of all that that someone would think was definitely okay would in fact qualify as a war crime under the Geneva Convention."

"The thing you objected to is something I have never heard of anyone objecting to. It does not strike me as obviously in a different category than talking, or than looking at people, or than touching something that belongs to someone else, and I don't know what you think of any of those things, and it's honestly frightening to admit that they occur here because maybe you will get very mad."

"Then I guess it's not metaphorical overkill."

Nod.

They chain up his legs.

He tolerates this patiently.

And free his arms.

"The Geneva Convention is in fact mostly about warfare, which isn't exactly applicable but if I mix it up with rules for treatment of criminals might do." He conjures some papers and starts leafing through them. "I'm also going to have to translate everything, I hope there isn't some intractable language gap..."

"I hope not."

"Wow is the Geneva Convention ever not set up to have useful definitions for morally abominable faeries, it's probably not going to be useful at all if I tell you that civilians are entitled not to be subjected to 'cruel treatment', is it."

"I could tell you what my guess about that would be?"

"Might usefully triangulate."

"If I heard that some court took a prisoner for - inadvertently stealing from them, say, and then they beat the prisoner nearly to death and fed him while he healed so that by the time he'd recovered he was in enough debt they could beat him nearly to death again, then I would say that they were being cruel."

"It might be useful to consider that these rules were developed by and for humans, for whom food is not optional and debt is not magical."

"I don't have much of any idea about what humans consider cruel. We meant to feed this one and give her to someone who wants to learn mortal languages and make sure she knew the rules and not punish her as long as she followed them."

"That doesn't obviously sound like a problem depending on the rules but doesn't explain the groping."