"Please give me an alternative. If you are going to do this to him again -"

"It was hard enough for Richard to talk me into it the once but he is unconscious to assure you of anything and I don't own him -"

He flicks the wand. Now Richard is not unconscious.

Richard makes a strangled terrified noise and Barnaby clings to him.

He waits. 

"I sent the demon home," Barnaby says. "Tell this madman that you aren't going to summon him back and get him out of our house."

"It needs to stop."

"Then go over CineMe's terms of service with a fine-toothed comb and get him kicked off the site but for the love of Luna, Richard -!"

"Next time I don't think I'll stop to chat."

"I sent him home! You can stop threatening us!" exclaims Barnaby.

"If he's likely to do it again I have a not-very-harmful method of making sure he can't and I remain a little tempted to employ it."

"What do you want?" exclaims Barnaby. "I sent him home! If Richard says he's done now will that be it or will you murder him in front of me anyway -"

"If Richard says he's done now that's it, I will walk out your door and leave you alone."

Resentful silence.

"Richard."

Glare.

"Richard your grandmother would not want you murdered in a home invasion over -"

"Fine." Through his teeth.

"Thank you," he says. "Timothy Way, if you need it for the police report. May we never have reason to see each other again." And he stands up, puts the chair back, walks out the front door.

The cat hisses at him on his way out.

The fairy turns out to have been stopped at the arcology entrance for not having an escort and has declined to force her way in.

He goes back to the Imbrium police station and adds an addendum to the report, that the demon was dismissed and he is grateful for their help.

Then he goes home.

"How'd it go?"

"Officer Oliver couldn't do anything for seven days but stopped by to frown sternly at them anyway; they weren't answering the door to chat but they actually did answer it for him, Richard tries 'I haven't summoned him, officer, look at me' and also 'he's not in the house, I took you seriously about the appearance of impropriety, it's okay to leave him in vacuum forever, right?' - waited a couple of hours, went in to talk with them - Richard's grandmother sold her soul and then had a psychotic break, he's convinced he's protecting the world - they both promised not to do it again, and meant it, but I probably traumatized them -

- oh, interesting difference between 1802 wizards and 2180 lunar residents, which was obvious thirty seconds in but hadn't actually occurred to me in advance - where I'm from, making it clear that you'll kill someone if they persist in getting in your way is totally compatible with seeming reasonable and trustworthy and even otherwise a friend to that person. In 2180 murder's - way more of a violation of the social contract, makes sense to have a background expectation that anyone willing to do it is insane -"

"That... is an interesting social norm..."

"Our world's broadly worse than yours, it would not surprise me at all if that norm is also worse. But - it works for us. George isn't scared of me even though in some senses I have a grievance with him and have recently displayed astonishing otherworldly powers, because I haven't told him I'm willing to hurt him and I knowably would tell him."

"Do I know who Ge- oh right. And if he were scared of you presumably he wouldn't let you past the peacocks."

"Exactly. I'm debating whether I should get a lawyer and everything if they file a police report."

"You don't have a Revelation identity. Has Maitimo gotten them to figure out what to do with interworld traffic, yet? In a general sense, since you're not an Elf either -"

"He set up extradition treaties with everybody for Elves because it'd be a disaster if they got arrested for something - I think he's treating all the Elves as one polity, or at least internally securing treaties so the Noldor can do interworld stuff for them - but I do not think he has an arrangement for interworld visitors in full generality. I was more debating what policy minimizes the degree to which Revelation's citizens are scared of teleporting wizards."

"Well, then your lawyer would have a really interesting time of it if you got one."

"I will wait and see if they talk to the police. Has someone summoned Minor back - under that gag that lets clothing through, he wanted to check if it lets little audio recorders through so he can update Hell on gagging evasion..."