"Somewhere clear of automatic harvesters where no one'll run into him, I don't know the area very well..."

"I don't either," says the fairy.

"I've been dead for twenty years, don't look at me," says the trapped one.

He pulls out a computer, looks at satellite maps. "Hundred miles west of here?"

"Yeah, okay," says the fairy, and he digs out enough circle and puts them all a hundred miles west.

"Thanks. We can go back now."

And the fairy takes him back.

He goes back upstairs.

The fairy wants some more things.

Eventually Cam comes back.

Timothy is writing the concerned friend. Summoned to face charges for raping a child. Thanks for reaching out to us.

"Hey, what's up?"

"Not much."

"Latest vigilante was justified in her vigilanteeism, not sure how to handle cases like that in general."

"Who'd she vigilante?"

"Raped a seven-year-old girl."

"Okay, I appreciate this in spirit, but is he currently being held in a facility that meets pancelestial standards for prison humaneness, or what."

"He is not. He complained about being endangered by automatic harvesters so I moved him to a location unendangered by those. It's not what I'd do personally but I'm not going to go lecture the woman on pancelestial standards for prison humaneness."

"And how long d'you plan to let her keep him?"

"I asked. She didn't say."

"If he's just... stuck somewhere... look, you object to Ganymede gagging demons, but if he has nobody to talk to the fact that he can sing to himself isn't going to help, he's not an Elf."

"I'm writing the friend who notified us, I'll tell them where to visit."

"And you're going to ferry them there?"

"Sure."

"That doesn't scale. Are you going to feed him and make sure he has Internet and a way to shower and a way to keep people he doesn't want to be near away from him? Are you going to effectively maintain a tiny prison for him?"

"I don't actually think he's entitled to those things, so no."

"You objected to me parking in what amounted to a hotel, where once there were soul Elves around I could even have conversations, and I holed a planet."