"Is there a way to patch the things that make it clumsy and discriminatory -"

"If we really wanted to go that route I'd give it to your dad to work on but I didn't see an obvious fix."

"Dots with really good video surveillance so we can notice and handle problems, and a rule against taking the daeva offsite, might be okay."

"And they have to avoid anyone stealing the projectors. Again."

"Projectors that don't work without external electricity are easy - I think easier than the kind which work anywhere, actually - they just have batteries in case of outages or something, and could be designed without them."

"Okay, but if projectors don't work at all in case of excess magic..."

"Then wizards break the dots, yeah. And we still have the problem where ex-wizard daeva will be highly motivated to get their magic back and are, by and large, not exceptionally nice people."

"Does Vala antimagic work on us too?"

"Haven't asked them, that's a good idea."

"Ideally it'd work on individuals and not just areas but that seems like not how they work."

"As far as I know, yeah, they don't seem able to do that. Areas might be enough, though, if the dots were safe."

"Enough to get people summoning; not enough to make the daeva realms safe. For all we know accidental magic is enough to turn a lizard into a dragon - or somebody will waylay Minor in transit next time a park wants a pair - or a fairy will steal a potions cupboard with unicorn hair in it - and then people can make their own wands."

"Not impossible, over a long enough time scale, but by then we're going to need to be policing the daeva realms anyway, I don't think the Elves're expecting the forking thing to stay quiet forever and the orcs'll finish their artificial womb..."

"I'm sure they mean well." Sigh.

"They clearly do." Sigh.

A fairy messenger informs Jake's girlfriend that she can visit him by taking a summons to Arda or taking the one specifically for her, which is just so she can visit and doesn't involve imprisoning her or anything.

She shows up. She wants to know if there's any privacy to be had.

It's a planet, they can go really far away from everyone else pretty trivially.

Any privacy with beds or the ability to fly, ideally the second one.

The magic-disabled area has beds and the rest of the planet has the ability to fly.

Off they zoom.

Good for them. Maitimo patiently inquires of Agueda Silva whether she would like to defend hostages demon.

"Can she pay my rate?" asks Agueda Silva.

"I don't think she has any money, but if you'd otherwise take the case I could endeavor to persuade the court to cover it."

"It doesn't seem as interesting for precedent-setting as the last one, but I do set my rate such that I'll happily represent even very boring clients who pay it."