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Does this involve Jake going somewhere he can't fly, because Jake does not really like that.

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Attorney considers for a little while then sighs and walks over to where Jake can fly. 

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Jake sits in the air sullenly. "You're probably not here to tell me that there's been a mistake and I can go home, are you."

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"I'm your defense attorney, I don't have the power to decide that. It sounds like there have been mistakes that I am going to try to use to get you sent home, but your cooperation will aid me in that tremendously."

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"Everybody's been real excited to tell me about how I should cooperate in my own abduction, which, fuck that. What do you need to get them to let me go?"

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"There's going to be a trial. They're going to attempt to prove that you tortured a lot of people to death. We're going to try to explain what happened in a way that persuades them you didn't break any laws, they broke laws so badly in the course of arresting you that you should be let go to teach them a lesson, or you've already spent enough time here to account for whatever wrongs you've done and should now be sent home. I would need to know more about what happened to make a case for any of those things."

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"I haven't the foggiest fucking clue what laws they'd need to have broken to acknowledge they fucked up."

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"Didn't offer you a trial, didn't offer you a lawyer, didn't inform you of the charges against you, didn't arrive at the conclusion there were charges against you via acceptable means, kept you contained to within a space smaller than ten miles square,  I could make the case that for a fairy that's intolerable and it should be a thousand - didn't give you access to food and water and internet and contact with other people, didn't have people available to answer questions or concerns, exposed you to danger, exposed you to violence, threatened to do any of the above..."

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"Didn't credibly offer me those things?" he suggests. "Haven't mentioned how many counts? I have no idea how big this place is. Didn't ask me if I had any dietary restrictions. Selection of 'other people' is shit. I don't think my girlfriend knows where I am or if I'm ever coming back. I don't think there's Internet in here."

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Notes notes notes. "Seven counts. What are your dietary restrictions? How can your girlfriend be contacted?"

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"The lady who arrested me sure contacted her all right in the first place, my girlfriend told her to leave me alone. I don't have the first clue where the food they've been offering me comes from and I've been getting the demon to make me stuff, I don't eat animal products that involved animals."

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He blinks. "If they left you under the impression they were serving you meat from dead animals that might be sufficient - does that happen in Fairyland -"

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"Yes, that still happens in Fairyland, it's mostly stopped in the mortal world now."

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"- do you mind if I go tell a colleague to file to get that stopped right now, I'll be back in ten minutes -"

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"Go for it."

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Jake's lawyer goes off. Jake's lawyer comes back fifteen minutes later.

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"Get what stopped, exactly?"

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"- the killing of animals for agriculture? And animal suffering, period, but that one the courts are going to drag their feet on without a cooperative local population, that's what happened with orcs -"

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"I don't know what an orc is. And good luck getting fairies to quit eating animals. It's mostly hunting, though, not factory farms."

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"We'll file on behalf of all the relevant animals and maybe they'll just decide to evacuate them. Or make them indestructible, if that's possible, I'm not sure, it's not my area."

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"Fairyland is infinite. But maybe you can cover as far as anyone's willing to haul or something, a few lightyears."

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" - that doesn't solve the wild animal suffering, though - there's infinite wild animal suffering going on and no one thought this merited discussion with all this new multiverse stuff - I'm sorry, this is off topic -"

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"No, it matters, did anybody tell you who I killed?"

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"I have names but not their relationship to you or anything like that -"

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"Not their relationship to me, I got seven of the last twelve CEOs of factory farming operations before they found my summoner and made her dismiss me."

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