"The last time there was an unbound daeva running around for any length of time publicly acknowledged it was shortly post-furniture-angel and a hundred ninety-eight people died in various rioting. Ganymede doesn't have anywhere near that many."

"So we need to make Revelation less fragile, not meticulously curtail our activities around their habit of murdering innocent people whenever they hear 'unbound daeva'."

"Make Revelation less fragile then not meticulously etcetera."

"Sure, I'm fine with that. I want to know why Ganymede is so committed to lying about this, what are they scared of -"

"I have no idea. How do you know they know - everything makes sense if they really don't know -"

"If they don't know they're so indescribably incompetent at forensics that every person in their custody deserves a retrial!"

"So find out and have Silva sue them, that won't get anybody killed!"

"If that's what's going on, instead of 'they're willing to ruin as many lives and imprison as many innocents as it takes to keep this secret', in which case I bet Silva gets dangerously ill again!"

"I really do not think the GCP poisoned her. She's pushing seventy, she will sometimes get sick."

"How could they possibly not know. Like, describe a way that could have happened, I can't even think of one."

"Their forensics demon sabotaged them deliberately."

"They don't use two? They don't have bindings to prevent that? Peoples' freedom is at stake -"

"Bindings only forbid things, don't compel them. Even if they have two they could cooperate in Hell on their days off. And I bet you GCP forensics officers are just as prone as anyone else to getting used to the demon in the corner and ceasing to think of them as a threat."

"Still think it seems more likely that they know and have a reason not to want it to get out."

"Like what?"

"The person in charge murdered or otherwise mistreated someone and doesn't want it to get out, they know it'll force retrials and want those criminals to stay in jail even if some ignorant judge concludes they're innocent, since there's no such thing as an innocent daeva, they just want to shut me down and think this is their best opening -"

"I will concede the argument if the chairman of the GCP personally murdered someone, forensic away."

"How? And - I save lives when I'm out there taking summons. That girl in Godspring who had no idea what daeva were would've been in trouble if she'd gotten someone bad, the New Guinea lady would have been in trouble most people she could've got, the kid who wanted to die, I've pointed out careless bindings to people -"

"Yeah. I know that sort of thing happens, I keep track."

"So sitting here and waiting for things to get resolved at Elf pace doesn't work for me."

"I had really high hopes for getting them to accept the revised procedure where the daeva get to live at home but unfortunately it has inadequate credibility at this point."

"And why is that?"

"Are you hoping I'll blame the GCP, because I actually think it was inadequately telegraphed expectations and the Valar being weirdos. Well, Varda specifically, it's possible somebody else would not have been a weirdo."

"I do actually think the GCP decided to pick a fight over pretty much nothing. They were told the prisoners could be arrested without taking a summons, that's what happened, they decided to complain about not having personally witnessed the prisoners accepting a circle and going back to Hell despite all of this happening in a different dimension. The procedural complaints the daeva's lawyers keep filing is the Valar's fault but the GCP made absolutely zero effort to make it work, concluded immediately it wasn't adequate - they didn't even propose any procedures given the new capabilities that they would regard as adequate, they just assumed a different species would work exactly like them and then declared the whole thing a failure as soon as it verifiably worked but in a way that didn't give them personally power over it. Unless you want to claim that their forensics demons coordinated to sabotage them there, too."

"I don't think they did, I just think they could have. I don't think the GCP is conducting themselves particularly well and don't like that I'm finding myself feeling obliged to defend them to you because you hate them so much that you can't be remotely charitable."