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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.
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through-the-free-fall
"Yes. And those are eminently reasonable priorities. I absolutely want there to exist certainty that they will be arrested if they hurt someone, and I think we can achieve an acceptable process afterwards. I think you do a very good job at both goals and we would love to have you as resources in accomplishing that. Just - while explaining ourselves fully to as small a circle of people as possible."
through-the-free-fall
"Do you think it would be conducive to future cooperation for your superiors to know this?"
alicornucopia
"Some of 'em will take my word for it. Maybe enough of them to pick policies that work out okay on the cooperation front."
through-the-free-fall
Nod. "I hope that's so. If that's not enough let me know and we can figure out what to do."
through-the-free-fall
"Has the GCP investigated the claim that summoners become daeva when they die?"
through-the-free-fall
"Daeva don't mention it during trials occasionally?"
alicornucopia
"I don't think so? Maybe they do. My usual position is as a contact for law enforcement."
through-the-free-fall
"We've heard it from a lot of different sources."
alicornucopia
"It's definitely a thing on the extranet lately, my wife's thinking of delivering a sermon disclaiming it."
alicornucopia
"Well, of course. Heaven and Hell are just called that, they're not where people go to be judged upon death."
through-the-free-fall
"I mean, you verified with forensics that it's false?"
alicornucopia
"I don't have access to the forensics department on my own recognizance for important things, let alone memes."
through-the-free-fall
"The GCP is taken very seriously. If you debunk something wrongly that seems like it'd do damage to the organizational credibility. Our departments did verify it. Either people become daeva when they die or we're missing something."
alicornucopia
"But daeva tell us they appeared spontaneously as adults with no memories, and they don't look the same as people either."
through-the-free-fall
"The claim is that ex-summoners become daeva, not that most or even many daeva are ex-summoners."
through-the-free-fall
"Humans who have summoned. We are not the best equipped to investigate, we could be missing something. But for every human who has summoned and is dead, here or in Godspring, there is a corresponding daeva. The Godspring mage ones sometimes even keep their magic."
through-the-free-fall
"Thank you. I really do appreciate all your help."
through-the-free-fall
That's fine. He puts in a request for people administering the daeva-arrest thing to meet human legal standards - "and get lawyers to sort the status of the redmages, while you're at it," he tells his alt - and gets back to arrangements for tourism.
Jake's court-appointed attorney asks to meet with him.