"Please don't try to get somebody to rape their wife for experimental data, Mirelótë might explode."

(Khemet and Hemaka glance at each other. Anaander snorts). 

"I think it might be one of those things where intent would matter anyway. We will look into it, we won't hurt anyone in the course of looking into it."

"I'd suggest you have a look at my Sudoku square -"

("It wasn't a very clever reference, I said -")

"- but he also goes in for torture so it probably won't tell you much."

He nods at someone anyway. 

His father comes in and receives the tablet in language-learning mode and starts playing with it.

"Lawful evil," Khemet tells Cor.

"Probably easy to pull off lawful if above the law no matter how much deception and betrayal you find convenient!"

He bites his lip, just slightly.

Snort.

Cor is not the least bit apologetic.

"Should I try the scry again or is it better to wait?"

"Can chipped Elves see in the dark?"

"...yes, but I was assuming the scry was like a camera, it's a little harder to make those do more colors."

"You can see through a scry with your normal vision."

"Oh." She accepts the ball and the others cluster around again and she tries it. "- well, she's out in the open now. She's purple with white hair. Otherwise she looks like Pelape and me. She's hiking with a bunch of people down a road in a desert. Nobody seems to be in a particularly good mood about it."

"Shall we send people to fetch her?"

"How will that parse, in local terms, especially if she's of a species people summarize as 'an evil race'?"

"I expect she'd be persuadable to come back with them but it might take some finagling. It'd probably be easier if one of you went but teleporting to a site you only scried runs some risk of going wrong and causing damage to the persons teleporting, which is mostly only a moderate inconvenience if you're the sort of person who has Teleport but which might be deadly to a normal person."

"I am indestructible but also have the highest opportunity cost and don't look like her."

"We can send out one round of people, they can come back and pick up a passenger, there's no risk of that the second time teleporting to a location."

"I'll go."

"All right. We'll let you know when they're ready for you."