"With humans you'd have a procedure for interviewing people prior to arresting them, yes?"

"Prior to trying them. Not necessarily prior to arrest unless it was really trivial, the sort of thing where even if they obviously did it they'd probably get off with a warning."

"I understand the importance of sticking to your procedures. It seems like the likeliest consequence of arresting him is that he gets off since the only evidence is his own word and then he doesn't tell us the next exploit he finds."

"I might be able to finesse it like ex-burglars consulting for home security companies or something but maybe that'd be better done through the Safe Summoning Authority."

"I can suggest it to them. Can you finesse it as 'you don't have enough evidence to make an arrest but you have enough evidence to warrant further investigation', of which the most obvious form would be sending him an email?"

"We haven't received a formal report about it and I can therefore justify leaving it alone. If it got out of my hands - I'm not eager to reopen that can of worms. How about I just introduce you to my PSSA contact and you introduce them to Minor and he can do pentesting for them."

"Sounds good. If there is a formal report I do expect I can get him to turn himself in."

"What makes this different from last time?"

"Last time a large share of his complaint was that you were factually mistaken about a question fairly central to the case, and also that you'd added laws so you'd have one to charge him with breaking, and also that you didn't have a case and knew it and were determined to see it go to trial anyway. This one - and mind I don't have any details - his concerns about your forensics have been assuaged and the law was in place anyway and the thing he did was a problem, thus his mentioning it to us so protections against it could be developed. If you'd let him write he wouldn't even take any prompting. Since I take it that's a nonstarter, he will take prompting, but he'd be promptable."

"Good to know. I don't think there's any call to push for it now. There obviously is not in fact already a law against... circle shrinking... but we're probably going to rush something about hostile use of non-daeva-exclusive magic in general."

Nod. "Anything else I can do for you right now?"

"I don't think so. Thanks for coming."

"My pleasure."

And before he's gotten very far out of the office he has an email from Niari to a PSSA expert called Trevor.

He would be delighted to stop by to consult with them too.

Trevor is delighted to receive him. He comes up with experiments he'd like to do with cooperating daeva and has the idea of a gagged fairy circle to test randoms - "I know it's not fun, but many fairies taking random summonses bring star navs, with writing on them, it'd cut down on extraneous answers."

"If you have some cooperating fairies in mind, that makes a lot of sense." And he explains Hazel magic again and Minor's circle-shrinking trick.

"I was hoping you could get us in touch with a greenmage fairy who might be willing to help. The wand test should work whether or not the fairy's a wizard though. I can run through our preprints collection, recall the ones that phrase staying inside the circle in a way that allows that..."

"I'll ask our team in Godspring if they can recommend a greenmage fairy. Do you have preprints for ungagged demons?"

"There's some generic circles where you fill in which kind of daeva you want yourself."

Nod. "Because people'll be summoning their relatives back, and they're not going to gag them, and it seems important to have a safe selection of circles..."

"Oh, yeah, definitely. We've got a preliminary relative-retrieval circle recommendation out but we're taking feedback on how that's working for people."

"Sounds good. I will make sure you hear about any new worlds as quickly as we do, and I'll try to find a greenmage fairy volunteer for you as soon as possible."

"Excellent, thanks. And keep in touch about someone willing to try wand screenings."

"I will see if any wizards can be persuaded to surrender their wands for such a test. Thanks so much."