Then he will go get the demon settled in. She already has Quenya but if she wants the human languages his brother can summon her. Here are the humans, here are some people he thinks she'll get along with, here's someone else with a kid the same age...

She finds a place to put a house and puts a house there and is happy to meet everybody and does definitely want the human languages.

So he calls Curufin over and explains summoning - "so don't ever want her gone she might drop the baby," he concludes. "If you do get dismissed somehow, my alt Bright who was helping you earlier conjures his mail, he gave you the address, right?"

"Yeah."

"He'll let me know right away and we'll get you back." And she is dismissed (he holds the baby and coos at her) and resummoned and - "any questions?"

She takes back the baby. "I think we're okay."

"Okay. Take care.'

"So," he says to Cam, "the consul thinks the situation won't escalate if the slaves are returned."

"It's probably impractical to polyjuice a few dozen house elves for the next several months."

"Yeah. Asked about compensation instead, he said double or triple market value plus the bodies should settle it."

"I can make you bodies. What shall it look like they died of?"

"Statistically healthy humans of that age in Godspring mostly die of plagues but that might make Birand nervous. Could they have all been trying to swim a river and drowned?"

"I can do drowned, sure. A few of them can have been dashed against rocks or something for added flavor."

"With the added benefit that it hopefully doesn't look to the slaves like we sent them back and they don't distrust us forever." Sigh. "She asked why I was unwilling to send them back if I was punishing rescuing them. I did not have a great answer."

"Acts of commission are psychologically and in terms of public relations very different from failures of omission."

"Public relations, sure. I am not sure the effect on my mood gets any weight in decisions about peoples' lives."

"Maybe not your mood but your attention, your assessment of yourself as capable of appropriately handling power..."

Nod. Sigh. "Well, this time we can cheat. Let's do that."

"Yes."

Cam makes appropriately waterlogged and battered bodies in appropriately waterlogged and battered clothes.

And he returns them to Birand with appropriate compensation.

Birand grumbles but does not look likely to start a war over it.

Or forbid dots?

They are pretty sure the culprit was this one slave rebellion leader who escaped them years ago, what does that have to do with dots?

Absolutely nothing. He wishes them luck finding that one slave rebellion leader.

He leaves to go find that slave rebellion leader.

Hiding in the cave with the escapees.