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"Do you think it's a good idea? I mean, I don't want acceptance of demons that's hovering on keeping the whole thing secret, but -"

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"And it is public record. Cam comes off reasonably well, and most people won't read more than the summary, in which he comes off even better."

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Nod. 

 

He translates into English, French, Japanese, Hindi, Mandarin, and Martian Portuguese. He posts it.

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It took three days. Most people don't read very far. Most people are not willing to express outright support for a planet-holing demon, but the negative space is sort of interesting.

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He can live with negative space.

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A judge reprimanded their lawyer for digressing too much into complaints about the conditions on Ganymede in her defense of Celendra. But does she happen to know anyone qualified to pursue that complaint on its own, Elves would kind of like that complaint pursued.

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She is happy to recommend someone.

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They would like Ganymede to stop gagging demons and to give the daeva more flexibility to hire their own defense attorney and participate in preparing their own defense, and while they're at it to allow them to use their magic in cases where it's necessary for disability accommodations (like for fairies who never learned to walk), and - "honestly what I want is to make them switch to the Elven system where we just send offenders back to their home realm unable to ever take summons again, but it seems like lots of pending litigation for prison conditions might be constructive for pushing them in that direction."

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"Will you settle for them instituting these protocols going forward or do you want them to try to recapture their entire population under the new conditions?"

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" - do we have any hope of achieving that?"

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"It's not impossible but pursuing that means making different arguments and reduces the odds of the first, at least of getting it with the initial case."

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" - I was going to have someone conduct an internal review for any more miscarriages of justice, I assume we'd retain the option to pursue those even if we're not aiming for recapture of the whole population -"

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"If you go after the GCP for similar things too many times in too close succession, you wind up running into laws intended to prevent harassment by legal action."

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"That seems like it shouldn't rightly apply to pursuing appeals for different people against whom they committed wrongs - is it harassment by legal action to have charged Cam with fifty million counts of murder, given how he actually did in fact murder fifty million people -"

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"No, because it was done in a single case."

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Nod. "In that case let me get back to you on which strategy we want to pursue once we've done a review of the existing cases."

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"Of course. You know how to reach me."

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And if they interview all of the daeva and look at all of the rest of the cases -

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Murders, most less defensible than Celendra's. Rapists. Property damage. A couple weird crimes like getting a dozen random people pregnant or attempting to overthrow the government of Switzerland or the furniture angel.

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The Elf who was interviewing the guy who got a dozen random people pregnant vomits on the spot and has to leave. They tell the lawyers it's fine to just push for a change in procedures from here forward.

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The lawyer files to attempt this. It goes slowly by human standards.

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Elves are satisfied. They reach out to the GCP to reiterate that sending daeva back to their home realms under a humane binding is always an option.

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Well, they didn't actually let the GCP see it done so they're still skeptical. Also they checked and the fairy and one demon they recommended to the Elves earlier are not even on summon right now, their circles are still live.

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Yeah, they're on the magic-dampening planet Varda set up for them, do they want to send observers to take a look?

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Sure but that doesn't sound like being sent home under a binding.

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