Does the forensics demon have an office.

Not with her name on it.

He'll knock on the nearest door, then.

Niari opens up. "Hello? - Theodore, right?"

"Uh, yeah. Um, my brother has just committed several murders for unclear reasons and I really really need a competent forensics demon fast is yours around -"

"Uh, yes, although we don't really have a procedure for hiring her out..."

"He has mind-control powers and is Imperiusing daeva to kill people off for him and then arranging for you to arrest the daeva gagged so they can't warn anyone I was kind of more hoping to supplement your own investigation than hire her."

"Are you saying this is what happened with Swan?"

"I have no idea what the fuck happened with Swan because Timothy had the Elves who were on site and could've talked to him murdered."

"...Let me get you Ken, he's the summoner coordinator and can get Swan allowed to make written material."

"Thank you, that will help. In the meantime you should be looking out for any daeva Timothy summons -"

"I'll ask Lilie to confirm that he summoned that fairy." She sends an email. "Ken's over here -" She leads him to an office, knocks sharply.

Ken opens the door.

"Swan needs writing privileges, my auth," she says.

"Are you fucking kidding me -"

"I have that authorization."

"You never -"

"It's an emergency. Do your job."

Ken grumbles but goes to his computer.

"That'll go through in an hour," she says. Her computer pings. "...Lilie says Timothy did not summon that fairy."

" - okay, well, that at least makes more sense than Timothy being on a murder spree, someone's impersonating Timothy and on a murder spree."

"We were asked to resume custody of Swan by the Elves, who said he'd been cursing most of the people he'd come into contact with and they were wrong about being able to handle him. Does that sound off to you?"

"Uh. Yes. Yes it does. What a conveniently unforensically verifiable claim about why they had to hand him off - who told you that -"

"Maitimo did - the 'Afternoon' fork -"

"In person or via message and if it was a message how do you know it was from him -"

"Message, in the conjuration dump."

"Maybe ask Lilie about that one too - it could've been him, Imperiused, but -"

She heads to a different, unmarked office. "Lilie!"

Lilie opens the door. "Niari."

"Do you have a while -"

"Yes. What is the matter?"

"Someone Imperiused a fairy to murder the Elves in Ganymede immediately before Cam was transferred there. The fairy says Timothy did it. Cam knows what's going on but can only communicate by nodding at my guesses and the guess he nodded at was that lots and lots of people have been turned evil and should be assumed compromised and he doesn't know who's safe."

Elsewhere she conjures and - "sub-Visser, Hell's moving." Check check - "they're all moving - they were stopped yesterday, I checked -"

"What - how far have they gotten -"

"- eight, ten hours? If one of them started up because their chip Elf died we can stall them by making a new set -"

"Are there any lower-maintenance options?"