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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
alicornucopia
"I'd take that if I thought you had a clue what you were doing but I don't appreciate being a test subject," says Trelane.
alicornucopia
"If you try her and she cooperates with her lawyer at all and Elf law is anything like ours she'll have all kinds of procedural technicalities to demand mistrial over."
through-the-free-fall
"We don't hold that irregularities in arrest procedures invalidate an arrest, just evidence derived from it."
through-the-free-fall
"If you want to raise procedural complaints with the system here you're welcome to have your attorneys talk to ours."
alicornucopia
"They won't know what complaints to raise if they don't know how long you've been holding them without trial and whether you're feeding the fairy."
through-the-free-fall
"Yes, they're feeding him. Our laws recognize the right to request an immediate trial, which they have not done. They have been informed they could go to Ganymede if they preferred it, and they do not prefer it, which I hope mitigates some concerns you might have."
alicornucopia
"If they have the right to an immediate trial they should've gotten immediate trials, if you wait for criminal daeva to jump through hoops for you you'll be waiting forever."
through-the-free-fall
"They have the right to request an immediate trial, the only hoop involved is saying 'I want a trial', and we're fine with waiting forever."
alicornucopia
"Look, these are criminals, they are not disposed to work with you, you need a default that works, and this doesn't hold up."
through-the-free-fall
"I see your point, and we can continue to revise for the needs of new species as we encounter them. I did say we were going to revise procedures to have a trial even without cooperation, and we can make similar adjustments. In the meantime, no one can get hurt and no one is kept under inhumane conditions, which strikes me as a satisfactory state from which to develop better procedures."
through-the-free-fall
"Care to walk through the portal into Tirion with me and discuss the other aspect of the problem?"
through-the-free-fall
Tirion! There are offices here for daeva who do want to consult with attorneys; he finds one. He closes the door.
"Demons can make Elves."