Downstairs the door opens and in walks a six year old girl with a weird animal.
Another demon appears and she and Alatess discuss baby care arrangements and then Alatess is ready to go.
Here she is. She tells the leader they're on the up and up.
He is deeply suspicious but when both demons corroborate the oath thing he seems to believe them.
He is happy to swear to some reassurance on where they're going.
"I'm sorry for scaring you. We'll help you resettle wherever you want to live, and we'll end slavery entirely as soon as we can."
They mostly don't seem inclined to thank him but they can all be moved to where Alatess is living without trouble.
That works.
Sigh.
And he goes back to checking for and resolving diplomatic and dot-related problems.
In that case he won't stop time when he goes back to Milliways for a break.
Occasionally Cir goes into the main bar area, though only when Ava is available to warn off people who might ignorantly approach him.
Then he'll encounter the new Maitimo, who is sitting with his boyfriend talking idly about applications of servantmaking.
Cannot social too busy crying.
"Um," says Ava. "Um someone needs to get Ruviri or Bright to drag him off I can't - um -"
Ruviri gets there first and runs up to Cir and rolls up his sleeve to grab his arm. "Upstairs, come on, come up and you can tell me about it -"
Cir is still crying but he can follow his sister.
Looks like a plot hook so he determinedly ignores it and turns back to suggesting they get Lári to pet those dragons into manageability.
Ruviri is snuggling him. "He looked at the new you and he can't calm down enough to tell me what he saw..."
"He was in Angband and he wants us to kill him but he's waiting until his boyfriend can say goodbye, that'd probably do it."