"Does my girlfriend know what's going on?"

"I would assume she knows that you were arrested but not necessarily that she knows how to visit you."

"No shit she doesn't know how to visit me. If I were in Ganymede she could catch a random and ask for a few hours to fly out and see me."

"She can still do that but it'd have to be an Arda random. I'll make sure she knows."

"Is there a more efficient way for her to do it, or...?"

"Yeah, if they don't have people whose job it is to summon friends for you then they will as soon as I can tell a judge that."

"She'd have to know it was just a visitor circle and you weren't arresting her to investigate her for something."

"I think their procedure right now is to not go into Fairyland but to pay people to deliver messages. If she doesn't trust a message are there additional measures I should insist on -"

"I don't know what other measures you have."

"Valar can visit directly but I can't have a court order them to do that, same with getting them to set up a portal between here and Fairyland which you can't pass through but anyone else can..."

"Why do you have Valar in your legal system at all if they don't respond to court orders?"

"Because otherwise we wouldn't have any way to improve much on Ganymede?"

"Improve on it at... stealing people out of our apartments to store us on alien worlds?"

"Enforcing the law, which both prohibits torturing people to death and prohibits torturing animals to death and is therefore on the whole on your side, here, I think."

Sigh.

"If some sadist in Hell is making thousands of eggs to hatch into chickens to torture just for fun, I want the Valar licensed to grab her and make her stop."

"Demons are on the whole relatively decent about animals."

"We haven't heard of any complaints like that. But there are billions of demons."

Nod.

"I'll file to get your quality-of-life complaints sorted and ask about ways you could verify the binding to stay home just does that."

"Thanks."

"If you need anything else you can reach me on the computers over there -" business card -

Nod.

"See you tomorrow."

"Mkay."