"The person operating the website needs to be able to confirm the association somehow, is the principal limitation."

"Is that impossible, or does it just not come up often enough that you know?"

"I don't know of any existing websites that have to be able to take input from every place with people living there."

"Okay. This is really in the realm of things I know nothing about, it sounds like we need someone more knowledgeable."

"The liaison should be here any minute."

Here he is!

And Raafi can relay the current state of the plan to him.

"Hnh. You said you need them to be able to go places by default. Do you need them to be able to go inhabited places by default? Or can it be uninhabited places plus whitelist?"

"If that's the best we can do I can allow it, but I'd have to be sure it's the best we can do. It would help if I could be sure there would be more than one place on the whitelist."

"Well, Ganymede and I assume eventually Oerth."

"That helps less than you'd think, with the kind of transportation limits we're looking at. And it still means we need to figure out bindings that make them safe enough around mortals."

"I mean... the state of the art in bindings is pretty good," says the liaison. "Compared to letting randos summon them with bindings they copied off a T-shirt and snapping those at the first mean look I'd take a pro binding and a pro summoner any day. But if you want them to go wherever they want, and talk, and walk right up to people? No, that's not safe. We can't make that safe. We can make it so they probably won't be able to kill anybody unless they find somebody walking along the edge of a cliff, or rape anybody unless they find somebody who believes them when they lie. If you can't cope with that risk for your people what are you doing demanding it from ours?"

"Safe enough doesn't mean perfectly safe. I know I'm asking for some compromises here. - I think I need to go for a walk or something and come back to this."

"That sounds like a good idea," says Leonor. "There's a music festival half a klick north if you like that kind of thing."

"Sounds good. I'll be back." He goes.

There is indeed a music festival ongoing; the currently most prominent act has its members dressed up very oddly and playing synths while they sing in a mix of three languages, often intrasentence or even intraword.

-oh. That's really nice, actually.

Kat, meanwhile, comes by Leonor's office a few minutes after Raafi leaves, to tap her nose at them and give them a questioning look.

"- hello, Kat, uh, I don't recognize the gesture?"

She casts a spell. "Sorry - weird that headshakes translate and that doesn't. Is everything okay?"

"Raafi felt that he needed to go take a walk when Tomás expressed that it wasn't possible to render daeva wholly safe to be around under the applicable constraints."

"Ah."

"I directed him to the music festival a ways north of here but don't know if he wound up there or not. I'm not sure when to expect him back, but he did leave very gracefully."

"He was headed that way, yeah. Had he given you the impression he didn't understand that?" she asks Tomás.

"He gives me the impression he's very lucky he got a friendly fairy, when he needed an emergency lift. Can't get specific the right way. I wanted to know if we could do 'they can go uninhabited places plus whitelisted ones'. He said only if that was 'the best we could do' and it'd help if there was more than one place on the whitelist, and I assume people on Oerth are accustomed to meeting violent criminals with magic powers every time they go out for a coffee, so I said at least Ganymede and Oerth, and he said that didn't help and we'd still have to make them safe enough around mortals. But we can't make them that safe! Bindings can only prohibit action, not compel it. If you have to let them go wherever they please, and talk to people, then there's nothing stopping one from going for a fly and then dropping on somebody at terminal velocity or while they're standing over a canyon. Nothing stopping them from saying 'oh, hey, cutie, by the way there's a flaw in my binding that'll let me maim you real bad, but I won't do it if you fuck me'. I can't stop them from doing that. He wants them to go anywhere in the solar system where the government doesn't have its shit together enough to say 'by the way, no criminals please', he's putting that on all those people who, may I remind you, don't in fact have their shit together that well! Might impair them in other contexts! But suggest that they could just hang out in Oerth where you're used to this and he has to go take a walk."

"-okay, that's - it sounds like you don't understand the constraints he's working under, has he explained that?"