"Presumably summoning works everywhere, at least once it's - hooked in to the network or whatever -"

"Yes, although there is a serious difficulty learning a language while in Milliways and they don't speak anything I already know." Pause. "Could get one of them to summon Minor and walk him through translating a good summoning textbook."

"He'd probably be delighted. A good summoning textbook flags bindings that let the daeva kill you, incidentally."

"Yes, one of those."

"If we had a cooperating Aulë the soul Elves're pretty sure he could fix aging but I am not completely sure no one'd tell him the whole story if we tried involving him at all."

"Someone probably would."

"Maybe there are Ardas where the Valar don't suck. Maybe we can find books about them and once we're satisfied that the books are produced by a civilization with competent benevolent gods we can fork the me and he can open the door there for us and they can fix everything."

"I was about to sarcastically wonder what it would look like for Valar to not suck but maybe it just looks like different individual ones winning their internal arguments."

"Maybe. From the outside it'd be easy enough to identify - no pardon, no Doom, Endorë nicer, more freedom of movement - Maitimo'd know what to look for -"

"Wait on getting a reply from him till we've got my murderer bound up so time doesn't pass in Fairyland though?"

"- I think we may have built ourselves an annoying little interdependency - if we want to bind the murderer in flat Arda but we're waiting on a plan for flat Arda until we've done whatever we're doing in my world, and we want Maitimo's input on things we're doing in my world -"

"Speaking as somebody who was also murdered by that same guy and does keep tabs on daeva incidents I really don't think he's an acute danger to anybody he'd get summoned by under normal circumstances."

"I am somewhat disinclined to predictably be the sort of person who completely ignores murderers if they seem unlikely to reoffend."

"...because that causes there to be more murders, come on, even in 2179 that can't be a completely foreign line of reasoning."

"No, that part is clear. I suppose you're technically not ignoring me but I don't feel very disincentivized?"

"You did not take any actions I want to disincentivize."

"Anyway, my point was he's not an emergency."

"At least among humans, responding immediately and predictably to crimes does more to discourage them than responding later when it's more convenient."

"Are you planning to become a supplement to Fairyland's criminal justice system? Or Revelation's? Is he entitled to a lawyer? Or are you a vigilante striking anybody foolish enough to answer a specific summons, heroically disrupting the fairy employment market?"

"I have five brothers who are still alive and I want them to stay that way."

"The swift and predictable punishment thing only works if you're actually predictable and you're not, and this isn't a human, he's a fairy, who if you're too predictable can just not answer your summons."

"Other daeva are not really the people I am worried about being predictable to."

"To whom do you wish to be predictable?"

"Broadly, people who might consider murdering my family members? More concretely, it would make all of us very markedly less safe if it were known in our world that Minor'd been murdered and we'd declined to do anything about it, and it is going to be very hard to hide."