I mean, you also don't know that she wouldn't prefer her original parents. But yes.

If she'd prefer her original parents then that's a reason for them to know she's alive. But - their treatment of demons is so fucked up I have no faith in the ability of a typical Revelation family to lovingly parent one.

They might figure it out quick if it was their kid.

Maybe.

And is the best defense lawyer in the star system interested in discussing a murder case with her?

For six thousand Martian dollars an hour sure!

He has money.

She's not even entirely clear on what it is. But the lawyer gets paid. 

"So here's what happened: the defendant had just completed the adoption of a five-year-old girl. She went to work, asked to quit, was told she couldn't quit on short notice, and was locked in there; she pleaded with them to let her go and was refused; they gagged her and left her there; she killed someone escaping. She went home to her daughter. She was arrested two years later, convicted of murder and sentenced to fifty years in prison. The complication is that she's a demon."

The lawyer looks really interested until the demon part. Then she looks fascinated. "How did she manage to adopt a child?"

"Child demons appear in Hell sometimes. It's very rare but it happens. When they do, they have lots of interested adoptive parents, and Olivia - the child - liked Celendra - the defendant. Celendra had a long-term summons doing communications conjuration on Mars; she arranged a babysitter for her daughter and showed up to the summons to let them know she'd adopted a child and was quitting. They refused to dismiss her. They stopped talking to her, and she had a gag so she couldn't speak when she wasn't being spoken to. Eventually she killed her summoner so she could go home."

"What's your interest in the case?"

"I'm a variant kind of Elf with telepathy. We've been on Ganymede talking to the demons - because they're all gagged in prison, they can't write for example their daughter or their spouse or an attorney, they technically have internet access but they can't produce letters or words so in practice they don't. We can take dictation for them, we can notify friends or family of why they abruptly went missing and that they're not expected home for sixty, seventy years - Elven law doesn't permit gagging people for decades, see, so we're going to have telepaths continually accessible to the demons until the Ganymede Circling Police see fit to reconsider their own treatment of prisoners - anyway, she told me her story and I thought that if she were human it'd be a clear-cut case of self-defense, killing your kidnapper -"

"Hm - where was this?"

"Mars."

"So, Martian law is built much more from the ground up than Earth law and every law on the books has an on-record justification or several of them, and in Martian law the primary reason self-defensive violence against kidnappers is permitted is the threat of physical harm - they might be taking you outside an arcology to have fewer witnesses, say - so I'd have to lean on secondaries, mostly the daughter..."

" - would it also help if the dead summoner was in fact alive and well, and it was known to the demon that would happen?"

"...Do explain?"

" - some humans become daeva when they die. Elves don't, so we only learned that this was the case recently when some daeva told us and then we did conjuration to confirm it. It's a minority but a substantial minority - fifteen percent? and daeva can tell which ones. That summoner is now a fairy. Celendra knew this before she did it."

"Hrm. I assume his family didn't know, and he couldn't straightforwardly return home, which means all the secondary reasons murder is illegal remain in place."

"Yes. But - he kidnapped her, she kidnapped him back, so to speak."

"Yes, I can see the argument. This could become very drawn out and I'll probably have to open by suing the GCP so I'll need to contact a colleague; possibly several. What's your legal budget?"

" - uh, I would have to ask somebody about that. I expect we can spend as much as is needed. Especially if we could also get anywhere on establishing that the GCP's current trial procedures aren't good enough and daeva on trial should have the rights humans on trial would, I'm pretty sure they'd be willing to spend anything to achieve that."

"That is... harder. There being some practical difficulties with bail and so on. I am confident there are improvements to be made but the bindings have to serve as arrest and prison guard both. I can call in an expert if that's a priority."

"We can make arrests without the daeva taking a summons willingly but an effort to convince the GCP to do that stalled because we were just sending them home under a binding so they could never leave their respective realms again, instead of keeping them prisoner on a planet here."

"What about that did the GCP object to?"