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.
"You've been on summonses with lax bindings before."
"Yes."
"Why now?"
"Well, I'd learned to do it, and also last time state of the art justice would be a vigilante sticking me in their shed."
Thanks, I can work with that. Does Ms. Chua get on along better with our new liaison? If so it might be that the most useful thing I can do for relations is stay home and argue the courts into harsher penalties.
Sadly no one else with 'prince' in front of their name is both qualified and interested in forking for it. I might not have made the job sound overwhelmingly fun. What would you like my priority to be here?
The fairy, pretty much. Everybody else we can maybe sell that they can never hurt anybody again and it's okay, but acquitted by a foreign court who justifies torturing people to death not so much.
Yes, understood. I'll work on it. - don't know if it was mentioned, but some Elves can talk to animals, that's part of the reason for the strength of the reaction to there being torture factories full of them, people are thinking of it as something much closer to 'torture factories full of people'.
I very dearly wish he'd been convicted, don't get me wrong, but we are not eager to enshrine 'they didn't know better' in our laws as a defense when we're encountering worlds with slavery and so on. They don't know better and nonetheless absent a nonlethal means of freeing slaves we will free slaves, absent a nonlethal means of closing torture factories we will close torture factories...
I am doing and will keep doing everything I can. I've challenged the sentencing, I've challenged the framework, I've met the judges for dinner, I'm filing appeals, I'm trying to feel out whether I can get anywhere by talking to the fairy, but characterizing it to your society as 'foreign court decides torturing people to death is okay' is your decision. The press releases I have seen have seemed very deliberately designed to have people as terrified and distrustful of our process as possible. If that's to put pressure on me, consider me pressured, and stop digging a hole.
Understood.
If you do successfully summon him I am confident I'm now positioned to prevent that from causing problems for you.
We're still thinking about antimagic prison design but I think it's dead in the water. A breakout of an unbound criminal would be too much.
It's not really an acceptable risk, is it. Technically possible that a greenmage daeva could force someone to take a circle, though I wouldn't want to convince a judge that mind control is a permissible way of making arrests.
Over a militant vegan, no. I wouldn't be the one to tell you no if you'd needed it for the planet holer.
It's good to have as an option for anything that bad. We also have (extremely costly and restricted) access to goldmages, who do limited time travel, so if another planet is ever holed tell us as quickly as you can and we'll undo it and warn you in time.
Minor turns fifteen. Not that he's been keeping track of how long it's been subjectively, but it's his birthday by Revelation's calendar and with Hazel stalled he may as well go by that. He misses taking summonses; he makes more videos instead. He delivers his speech on Sesame Street Luna about how demons are very helpful but no one wants to let them talk.
The muppets are very sympathetic. Maybe since he can talk while visiting Sesame Street he would like to say the word of the day!