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The Valar announce that they've done as much as they can in Singularity (they can't bring back peoples' babies in that critical period either, but they can get them earlier versions) and are setting up portals between there and Sanity as soon as they are confident they've cleaned up the plague. A bunch of Elf architects have this wild idea for a fivedimensional city where alternating intersections are interdimensional portals between various Valinors and they get eagerly to setting it up.
dismissal
too-early-and-too-late
"It is not, presumably, illegal to be a charming demon and thereby inspire people to summon demons."
too-early-and-too-late
"So if our would-be arrestor hands him over to the GCP they investigate briefly, tell him to let him go-"
from_scratch
"They'd be acting against their charter but I'm not actually sure who's supposed to hold them to it."
too-early-and-too-late
"We can get someone in range to read to him and wait for the system to work. For a little while."
neither-power-nor-glory
He volunteers to go hang out in Imbrium and teach Minor Taliska. He does that. Minor is pleased they've thought to make a video.
He gives regular updates. After a week he says "Okay, I'm going to the police today to ask them if they'll get Minor sent home. We're really worried about him. He won't starve but he can get exhausted, and he doesn't have enough room to lie down, and solitary confinement's horrible for demons just like for humans."
And off to the local police he goes.
alicornucopia
The Imbrium City police department will take his complaint by writing and see if a computer can give him a canned response first please.
Okay.
His complaint is that a summoner has been holding a demon for over a week without offering him a task.
alicornucopia
He is thanked for his report; where should the IPD contact him if further developments appropriate to share with him come up?
alicornucopia
After a day, an IPD officer swings by the house. Richard Moon shows him into the storage room.
"Demon, I'm with the local police. Have you been held here without task negotiation?"
