"No idea but I guess probably if I can eat yours?"

"Maybe. I can eat furry people’s and they can’t eat most of mine."

"Can I come grocery shopping next time you go?"

"That sounds fun. I usually go on the way back from work but I don’t have to do it that way."

"What's your job?"

"I help the government find out if people break laws."

"I should know what those are probably."

"Yeah. I was having a hard time reading them to you earlier, can you say more about laws before I try again?"

"Uh, people who break the law go to jail, or get fined, or they're executed, if the judge they interview with thinks they're guilty. They could like lose their medical license if they had one and they did a medical related crime. Probably other licenses are like that too. Reds sometimes go to jail but don't get to interview with judges, the greys handle it themselves even the execution part on the spot... people who didn't do any crimes are innocent... judges are blue, but I guess here they wouldn't be..."

"People who break the law get fined or they're executed or... a wizard does magic to them and then the government sells them... I don't interview people, I look at what happened in the past."

"That sounds like, uh, convict slave labor?"

"Yes, there's convict slave labor here."

"Oh. That seems bad."

"Hm?"

"Amenta doesn't have slavery at all any more. Since it was bad."

"Bad how, for who?"

"For the slaves in... basically every way, they couldn't do what they wanted at all."

"...Yes? Yes, it is bad for the slaves in basically every way. - The laws are simple and you will be fined the first time and you can die instead, you're probably not going to be convict slave labor."

"I guess being able to die instead is better than the alternative!"

"The laws are really simple. The big government has this much," gesture, "if you write a letter this big," gesture, "and the smaller governments here have this much," gesture, "and they don't have convict slave labor."

"Yeah but you're the only person who can speak Tapap and I don't know what words you're going to need."

"...You have no reason to trust me enough to believe this would solve your problem so it won't happen but it would solve your problem if I made you my slave now."

"How the fuck would that solve my problem."

"If my slave steals something, that's my crime."

"I don't want you to get in trouble either - is this like, term-limited, a month or something at a time -"