Sigh. "I assume sometimes you get the wrong person, or do you never execute anyone who denies it?"

"Mistakes happen."

Deeper sigh. "Are there resources that would help you revise your criminal proceedings so mistakes happened less?"

"You mentioned mindreading, I suppose we could incorporate that."

"Needs a god, though it can be a very minor one. Huan would not get along with you people at all, I'll ask around at home if there's anyone who'd be willing to come help exonerate people."

"If they're not willing to convict it works less well."

"Tougher sell. Maybe some of the Endorë rebel Maiar."

"If you have other ideas - I do not know how Elves would handle this, from the reading it sounds like you're as a group disturbingly obedient -"

"Crimes are rare enough, and sentencing lenient enough, that we have no trouble getting as much divine assistance for fact-finding as resolving cases would require, yes. I can also just tell when people are lying to me. I'd say it's the thousands of years of practice but not everyone can do it and we all have that. I've actually been requesting information from the orc and Dwarven legal systems, which have a higher-crime population and no divine assistance in handling them, as more immediately relevant to the situation here. Obviously to me my people seem exactly the right amount of obedient."

"I imagine it's convenient."

"I could push it too far - the decision not to make a fuss about your homosexuality thing was unpopular - but I certainly have more leeway than you. What was the next item of business after food?"

"You'd lose all the dubious moral high ground if you did sweep in and - what, attempt to forcibly divorce the idiot from his husband -"

"I am not sure we're getting anything out of the dubious moral high ground in the first place. The Valar can, ah, fix it."

"No one is making a thousand-year plan to destroy you to the best of my knowledge. - fix it?"

"They do it for people attracted exclusively to children or animals, too. Inappropriate paraphilias."

"Continue not to make a fuss," she says icily.

...nod. "What was next -"

She looks like she'd rather faceplant on her desk, but she digs up other agenda items.

Then they can get things done. 

Eventually he thanks her for her time and heads out. He checks that Savo's all right.

In his office, quite intact.

"I understand why you tried it. I - I hope we didn't interfere with something which would have eventually worked -"

He looks up at him rather pathetically. "Robots thing is something."

"Yeah. We'll probably set them all up on Endorë, if you think you'd want to leave -"

"...If I still expected to be executed maybe, not otherwise - I don't really want to live with reds - I have a family -"

"Moryo mentioned, yeah - how's your niece -"