"If it won't actually help then it's probably not any good to have a rule about."

"Yeah. I guess it might help if there were more fairy slaves? But I feel like the situations we actually have here are a little too complicated to be fixed very effectively with a law."

"I just wouldn't want new people to show up and be confused about whether they might be enslaved if someone wanted them."

"Yeah. Uh, I think that will not happen but probably we should come up with a different proposal for Elizabeth, or something."

"I'm not really any good at words. But yeah."

"I guess you could at least ask her to stop calling Connor her slave. - although come to think of it I think it was the fairy you who said that first, I don't remember whether she's said it herself."

"You could do that," he says to Matt.

"It does seem like probably a good idea."

Elizabeth emerges from her yurt. She mentally checks on the pegasus and then heads over back to everybody else.

"Hi."

"Hi! I - think we should bring the mind control me here but we should maybe not do it today. We should instead maybe take a little more time for me to work on my magic and other people to work with Mahdi on magic and to get Cecelia's sister settled in and also see if maybe the pegasus comes around to meeting us. Is what I am thinking right now."

"Okay! I don't know most of those people but that sounds good to me."

"I think that's a good idea."

"Okay. And, yeah, we should also maybe wait until you know a little more about what's going on. Possibly you should pick a name that isn't yours, just so there isn't any trouble with the full fairies. I should get Hagan's friends to do that too, probably."

"I will be Starfarer."

"Aww, I like it! Okay, Starfarer."

"Usually yous are very uninventive at naming people."

"Oh, I am. - comparing to people in my society."

"I should possibly give the pegasus a name before Connor names it 'pegasus'. Do I have to do anything special to name things, or just, like, mentally assign a name - " she asks Matt.

"You have to say it out loud and the named person has to be present, though it's okay if they don't know they're being named.

I don't think the pegasus is a person, though."

"I'm pretty sure it's a person. It thinks very persony thoughts."

"I don't think it's a person to fairy; I don't think it can be in debt. I don't know anything about its thoughts."

"Hm. I guess it's not urgent, then."

"You could double-check in case debt accounts differently for pegasuses or in case the telepathy makes it different."

"Yeah. I don't really want to track it down if it's not ready to meet us, though."