And a few minutes later, she's summoned to the courtroom again.

"Here reopens the court in the matter of Maelstrom vs Malosloff.

The fact-finding mission went exactly as planned. The mice mostly have Intelligence 3. One has 4.

I experimentally determined that they do not have sufficient life force to constitute souls capable of traveling the length of the River of Souls.

Hell, report."

She describes her observations truthfully and completely.

"Does anyone dispute a finding of Evil?"

"What are you basing that judgement on, Your Honor?"

"Their Intelligence."

"You can't just decide that! You have to let us actually argue the point!

Your Honor."

"While technically a judge may use any fair mechanism, if you are still using standard legal protocol, Your Honor, then your introduction of Erastil vs Aolar -1210 was out of order."

Sigh.

"Fine. I have another case in an hour, so keep it quick. Remember we still haven't decided on the decedent's systemic alignment and that's going to go to his 'myriad daily actions'. Hell, say what you're thinking."

Wait what, say all of what she was thinking or just her next step in the dance?

"Per Erastil vs Aolar -1210, creatures with greater than 2 Intelligence are not animals. Thus the mice are not covered under Asmodeus vs Erastil undated. Thus they are slaves.

They don't have souls, but that doesn't make them animals any more than wizard familiars are animals."

"Familiars are not slaves because they stay voluntarily, Abyss vs Liadon -5005. Many of the mice liked him, leaving just a few counts of slavery, mitigated by ignorance as we discussed earlier. So we have to go to his 'myriad daily actions' for moral alignment after all."

Yes! "I'll accept that."

"I don't. You can make any slave like their master if you try hard enough. The mice couldn't leave."

"Do you have data on that? Nevermind, even if you can make a slave like their master with enough magic and mind reading and torture, that's itself Evil, and requires them to be a slave to start with, which is not what the decedent did. He bred them to be affectionate."

"I think we've had enough of this. A few counts of slavery remain, mitigated, but he's still Evil. Arguments on systemic alignment?"

"He followed laws and dealt fairly his whole life, with some imperfection, but he strove to respect the law."

The agathion does not look happy. "Nirvana concurs."

"Any other arguments?

Very well. Lawful Evil."

Miracle. Victor Malosloff disappears.

She won. Yay?

A few hours later, a devil flies to the border of Stonepeak with Malosloff's burnt and lacerated body and throws him over.

A Sietaziz catches him and brings him to his assigned Cantor (not Kireh), who comforts him and tells him that Asmodeus's transport is horrible but he wasn't in any actual danger, and now he's safe forever.

Interesting background, does he want to aim to be a Cantor?

And Kireh gets an unexpected summon!

The offering is a check for 300gp in Axis currency.

She tells a Gofiere to inform her charges that she's taking a summon.

She's in the Boneyard. "Welcome, Ms. Kireh, Cantor Marrenai of Stonepeak. Is that the best way to refer to you?"