Elsewhere:
Maitimo wakes up.
The room is littered with forensic conjurations of people and notes and wands and books and planets. In the room is Ms. Chua, and a black-winged demon. Looks too straightforwardly Asian to be naturally occurring.
It's nice that Elves do that.
Eventually Cam goes back to his room that Timothy has not technically formally moved into but is probably in.
"I would like to expect that when you have interacted with situations they will be okay after that."
"Like, I get the priorities argument but - make that argument when deciding not to help stranded daeva at all."
"Yeah, we're not going to get involved any more. I don't consider referring it to the GCP to reliably be - a form of interacting with a situation that results in the situation being okay."
"It's the most straightforward way to hand it off. I can't really go convince random people to dismiss fairies. There might be kids in Fairyland. He won't be stuck in a five foot diameter circle in the woods till she dies now."
"I know.
I'm not really okay with reporting rapes to the police without the consent of the victim. Didn't apply in this case but you announced what you were going to do before you checked."
"I sort of get the argument but it's not clear when to start applying it if it's a kid and I'm not sure I buy it even for adults. And, like, the summoner told Minor, who was a random stranger. And could have been lying, did he forensic it - if you turn a thousand cases on your lie detection ability you'll be wrong a few times -"
"He didn't deny it, if he had I would've had Minor check. I don't think you're wrong, it's more - there are things I wish I hadn't told you, knowing you see it that way."
"I'm actually sort of surprised I was insufficiently clear. If you have a policy of reporting child rape cases decades after the fact to the GCP for a very public trial whatever the people involved want, then I do wish I hadn't told you anything I don't want the GCP clumsily and publicly announcing eventually."