"Wow, personal space?"

"You destroyed my mosaic! You're going to pay for this! Silverio, help me hold him so I can call station police!"

"I'm not going to help you fight a demon. I can call the station police to try to get things sorted out peacefully if you're both OK with that?".

"Sounds fine to me. Sir, please let go of me while we wait for the cops."

"I'm not going to let go of you, vandal!"

Meanwhile, Silverio is speaking on the phone:

"A fight has broken out in Main Square. No. One of them is Anton Lewis, I don't recognise the other but he's not one of the workers. I'm one of the workers, we know eachother. Anton didn't seem to know him either. Jeans, and what look like blue bat wings attached to his back. Yes, jeans and blue bat wings. Yes. No. Right now Anton has restrained the other man. No one looks to be seriously injured so far. Neither of them has done anything that looked like it was aimed at killing or seriously injuring the other. Neither of them is visibly armed or has used weapons against the other but the man with the bat wings did something to the mosaic that I don't know how he did but might have been some sort of hidden weapon. No. He made the tiles crumble into dust. I don't know how he did it. It all happened at once. It didn't damage anything except the mosaic tiles. No. He said he was a demon who had been summoned by the mosaic. I have no idea. No, I told you, I don't know him. I have never seen him before. I don't know. Yes. That's right. No. No. No, just Anton and the demon, everyone else has been staying out of it. Yes. Yes. No. That depends on whether you count the attack on the mosaic as part of the fight. Goodbye.

" The police say they've dispatched someone."

"Oh good. In what ways is it acceptable around these parts to escalate when being wrestled?"

"I wouldn't know, I'm sorry, sir. I wouldn't escalate in your circumstances, but I'm not a lawyer, or local enough to be a good guide to local customs."

"Figures." He stops trying to keep his feet and sits down, wings flaring out.

A little while later, several people arrive in identical pale blue clothing with dark blue embroidered symbols (a hat, the letters "SDRS" and a knot, all in a wreath, over crossed trumpets) on the chest. When they do, Anton releases Cam.

"What's going on here?"

"This man destroyed my mosaic. I demand that he and his co-conspirators be punished appropriately."

They look questioningly towards Cam.

"I told him the mosaic was a safety hazard. He didn't believe me. I can replace it with a safe mosaic if we come to some kind of reasonable agreement about what that would be. Ideally, it would not summon demons with dangerous magical powers into an unprepared setting."

"So you destroyed the mosaic because it presented a safety hazard?"

"It was preposterous! He claimed he was a demon who had been summoned by the mosaic! He had Lindiwe claim to have seen him appear out of thin air in the middle of the mosaic!"

"Is that accurate?"

"Yes, that's right. I assume this gentleman wasn't looking at the time. Is there a security camera?"

"There is a security camera."

"He's probably doctored the footage. He bribed Lindiwe and did something to sabotage the mosaic tiles, so he's clearly put effort into setting this up."

"What did he do to the mosaic tiles?"

"I don't know, but he did something to make them all crumble to dust at once."

"I see. So you" (he indicates Cam) "claim to be a demon who was summoned by Anton's mosaic and destroyed it to prevent it from summoning more such demons, and you" (he indicates Anton) "claim that he set up an elaborate hoax to pretend to be such a demon, including bribing your employees, the sabotage of the mosaic's tiles through an unclear method and the hacking of the station's security cameras?"

"Yes."

"The specific mosaic actually was expended when I arrived; I wanted to prevent it being copied."

"So it's one demon per mosaic? Did you have reason to expect someone was about to copy the mosaic?"

"No specific reason but it's hard to be too careful when possible results of summoning the wrong demon include 'the planet is sucked into a black hole'."

"I see. So you're alleging that in the process of designing the mosaic Anton accidentally created a design for a dangerous occult demon-summoning ritual and you destroyed the mosaic to keep the ritual secret? Would you be willing to work with Anton to modify the design into one that you'd be willing be made?"

"I shouldn't have to modify my design over this nonsense!"

"It's a decoration for a public space. Working around other people's demands could be considered a part of the job."

"Will I get credit for it?"

"I can't unilaterally guarantee that but if he's willing to compensate the station for the additional work time I expect it can be arranged."

"I want to remain in charge of the design. And I am absolutely not letting him have co-designer credits."

"I really don't care about design credit. You just have to have it not say that you're summoning a demon. Uh, or anything else."

"It didn't say that."

"There was a line in the poem that technically said that."

"So you're asking me to change one line of the poem? It's not my poem, I just chose to put it on the mosaic."

"You could probably get the copyright holder's permission to do a modified version. Or use a different poem."

"The copyright holder is Sarah Flynn-Pembroke. She'll probably agree to do a modified poem, but I'll want it in writing that the changes are being demanded of me against my will so she won't hold it against me and I want a written disclaiming of creative involvement from the demon guy before I broach it with her because if he does wind up finagling creative credit for any of her work she will hold against me."

"In that case I think we need to escalate the matter to someone with the authority to formally demand the changes. Do either of you object to taking it to the station assembly?"

"I don't see a good reason not to just take it to the court, but if you want to make the assembly deal with a vandal telling a fantasy story it's not my problem."

"Whatever's the done thing is fine by me. I don't want credit for the poem merely being one of zillions of possible poems that don't summon anybody."

"We don't strictly need to escalate it higher than the infrastructure committee, but in either case we'd go via the sheriff, and the assembly typically prefers that particularly important or unusual cases be brought to them. The infrastructure committee might be better if you're wanting to keep this low-profile.

"I guess ideally if it's going to become high profile information that you can summon demons I should find a safer way to reveal that."

"OK. Could you both come with me to the police station, then?"

"Lead the way. Or tell me which way as the demon flies, I'm not very quick on my feet."

The police will lead them through highly decorated street-sized corridors to a door labelled with the text "Station Dispute Resolution Service" and the same emblem as the police uniforms, and from there through corridor-sized corridors with a more consistent and understated aesthetic to an office containing a man in a black hat matching the ones on the police emblems and a black tie (worn without a collar), both with the police emblem in silver.

"Excuse me, Sheriff: this man is demanding a change to the design of the mosaic in the square, vandalised the mosaic to prevent it from being made according to the existing design, and has offered to reimburse the station for costs incurred by the change in the design. Mr. Lewis has stated that he'll comply if the infrastructure committee demand it and pay him for the extra work but not otherwise."

"The infrastructure committee made the designs publicly available for two months in advance. Is there a good reason you didn't make your complaints then?" The sheriff asks Cam.

"I was in Hell at the time."