He leaves.

He calls a lawyer to request things get sorted for Cir. Godspring summoning traffic slows; everyone's had a chance to visit a circle who is old enough and well enough to send a daeva home. Infant mortality they'll have to fight with sanitation and vaccinations and so on. He revises dot designs for the next world in order to minimize wait times.

"What do we need to do with the lawyer?" Ruviri wonders.

"Ah, her job is to explain to you how you can access your money and go to the police if you wanted to and how you're not under any contractual obligations our laws recognize. I know you know, but laws sacrifice - fit to a situation - in exchange for predictability and predictability is genuinely important."

"Okay," says Ruviri.

"Thank you."

The lawyer explains those things to each of them separately and asks if they have any questions.

"Why did you want to see us one at a time?" Cir asks.

"Sometimes people might feel pressured to respond a certain way or not bring up a certain complaint if there are other people in the room."

"...she's my sister. My redmage sister. Even if she would ever do anything to hurt me she'd know if I said something about it whether she was there or not."

"We're definitely encountering a lot of respects in which our procedures aren't really equipped for redmages. But she'd know next time she saw you, right, and if something were wrong you wouldn't need to see anyone here again."

"Well, yeah. But I wouldn't want to never see her again."

"Do you have any suggestions about how we could help redmages in abusive situations, since they probably wouldn't tell us if they thought we'd hurt the people they loved?"

"Well, you probably shouldn't hurt the people they love."

"We could have some sort of confidentiality principle," she agrees, "so liasons in this role wouldn't report abuse to the authorities. I can suggest that."

"...then what would they be for?"

"Giving you the information and making sure you feel free to ask enough questions to fully understand it?"

Nod.

"Do you have any questions? I'm not under a confidentiality agreement but if you'd like a promise not to cause trouble for the prince over it I could promise that."

"I can't think of anything you'd cause trouble for him over. He's always perfectly lovely to me," says Cir.

Nod. "Well, here's how to reach me if you have any."

"Okay."

"Thanks for doing that," he says later.

Snuggle. "It wasn't a big deal."

"Shouldn't be a big deal. Anyway, there's a procedure now and I can stop telling everyone not to date humans under any circumstances in favor of something a bit more balanced and sensible."

"Instead if Elves date humans you have to give them lots of money in a trust that the Elf can't revoke, I'm sure it will be very discouraging to the humans." Kiss.