"That's complicated and not a priority compared to people stuff but if 'study' happens to mean 'vivisect' I can probably just straightforwardly replace whatever information y'all are getting out of that."

"You can't affect slow things except with extremely rare magical equipment. I'd be very interested in what animals are like inside but it won't replace anything because we don't hurt them as is."

"Then yeah putting mice and stuff in cages isn't a big deal, I don't think there are any of the really smart animal species in random German forests."

Nod.

Here is a little diorama of the court they wanted, missing chunks.

"About cutting the bowling balls, that's actually really hard. I don't think they're individually too big to be impossible to pick up or at least roll around though?"

"They're not but it'd be really nice to be able to do something with them other than - put them in corners as decorations, I guess."

"I guess if you do really well at the not being evil thing maybe I will teach you to summon an angel."

"What's an angel?"

"I'm one of three kinds of thing that have powers. Angels can get rid of stuff, as a subset of changing stuff generally."

"What does the third kind do?"

"They move things."

"That sounds much less useful."

"It matters a little more when they're generating electricity and supporting interplanetary transit."

"I guess those wouldn't be things I could appreciate."

"Maybe you can give the bowling balls to other courts as exotic presents or something."

"No one can lift them."

"Would you like little carts for them."

"Not as much as the other things on the list but if we have more to settle later, maybe."

"Okay. Sorry, I would have done something else to avoid being dragged off but at the time I was under the impression that everything had to be midair."

"I'm just grateful that no one got hurt."

"That would have required both more creativity and more ruthlessness than it turned out I needed to deploy."

"I am confused about why they would have written the constraints that they did, if they wanted you to attempt to hurt us and thereby destroy our court."

"I think they copied the circle from some humans and had no idea what it was for, originally."

"That seems ill-advised."

"Oh, yes, a very bad idea, though I don't know what circumstantial information they may have possessed, maybe they saw a human make a deal with some demon."