"So how do we do that?"

"If you can't remove the vassalization system from fairies entire it will have to involve giving some orders or they'll just collapse back into a court again as soon as anything's disrupted, albeit maybe a nicer one if Thorn were out of the picture."

"I can't, no. Once the peal finds us we can probably teleport everyone over to near Wish and wish it away but until then - we could just order everyone never to give anyone any orders?"

"This collapses the instant someone vassalizes them and rescinds or excepts that."

"Ugh. What works?'

"Courts work - mostly, until someone like you shows up. Courts don't have to be miserable but they have to be secure and maintained."

"I could move people who are ordered not to get any vassals or give any orders over to some other continent, so they won't be around anyone who'll rescind them?"

"You have personally participated in a voluntary vassalization to get unwanted orders rescinded. Recently."

"Yes but if I had orders not to do that then I couldn't have done that, right?"

"If they were airtight. Are you going to vassalize everyone on the continent so they won't vassalize whoever you banish there?"

"I was thinking of finding an empty one."

"For everyone?"

"Everyone who thinks that sounds nicer than the current arrangement?"

"You want to individually interview and then place in solitary exile every fairy."

"Do you have a better idea?"

"...I need a clearer idea of what you can do - we can test the gates, I need geographical descriptions of where to aim."

"I can send you mental images." Their city in Warp! A distinctive place on their planet in case the city doesn't count. "There are two hundred worlds but that'd be the one to start, if you can do it past adjacency -"

"Doesn't work."

"Can't make a gate or you need more or different information -"

"First thing, the picture ought to have done it."

"Yeah, adjacency. It's okay."

"I can try more."

So he sends more!

None of the worlds he can provide mental images about afford a gating.

"I could try from the mortal world but sorcery doesn't work there."

"What's 'the mortal world' - is it adjacent -"