"He says he was going to move them soon."

"Great. I would like to offer resources to help achieve that, and maybe a better array of options to move them to."

"He wants to know why they should trust you now when you were going to leave them."

"You don't happen to be familiar with the Elves-can-bindingly-give-our-word thing, do you -"

"Uh, I am but I bet he isn't -" Chatter chatter. "He isn't."

"Does he trust you on it?"

"Nope."

Sigh. "What is he afraid I'll do? Take them back to Birand? If I wanted to do that, why would I try persuading them otherwise? Enslave them somewhere else?"

Chatter chatter chatter. "He doesn't want to say."

"Okay." He pulls open his computer. "Can you translate these circles for him, please, and explain how negotiating works so he's not at risk of accidentally agreeing to something that gets him in trouble -"

"I'm not sure I can translate them just right so they'll still be good bindings, translation is a skill, it's not just a matter of knowing the languages..."

Nod. "Okay. Thanks. In that case I think I'm going to grab everyone and take them back to my world where we have more options."

"He says they're already scattering in the cave system and won't recall for you."

Nod. "Can I have a moment to think?"

He writes Cam. Escaped slaves understandably don't trust us. I'm not leaving them here because if Birand finds them alive then we have about triple the problem on our hands. I have good enough hearing I could just walk through with Mirenna (the fairy I'm working with right now) and find them all but I think there's a risk some would attempt to kill themselves and that's not acceptable. Have a better idea?

If he asks the linguistics demon to conjure the reply, it reads:

Summon back their supply demon, get her to vouch?

Sure, can you ask Sunset to ask her?

Sure.

Cam relays this request to Sunset.

And he goes over to her house and knocks.

Alatess opens the door. Her baby is asleep in her bassinet.

"Hey! We're trying to convince the escaped slaves to relocate from the cave they're hiding in, but they're scared of us. Want to stop by and talk with them?"

"Uh, where are you trying to put them?"

"We were going to give them a choice of mostly the same places we gave you, only obviously with resources to help them start out since they're not demons."

"I can tell them that you put me and Nimie somewhere nice but you have to summon Diane to watch her for me."

"Sure. Can you make me a copy of this circle -" Computer -

She reads it over and makes it with Diane's name in it.