"That would be interesting."

"Anyway you could probably halve your error rate just by not rushing everyone off to their death inside a week."

"That's important for deterrance."

"We can take longer about it if we have a reason, I had a pregnant woman once but I postponed a few times so she could identify the guy who bought her employer's emails and corroborate with the other people he spoke to and then I could knock the sentence down a few notches."

"But being pregnant wouldn't be a reason in itself - selling your employers' emails is a death sentence?"

"Oh, it'll be a stay of execution now, it was changed. It is if your employer does sensitive government work and disclosing the contents to foreigners is treason."

Pat pat. "You're the only Maitimo we can do this to, Angband makes them rather unflappable."

"Has anyone checked if a death sentence deters email sales any more than, like, two years in prison would. I presume people do that not expecting to be caught at all."

"That one in particular was expecting that the fellow she sold them to was a local blue who could disappear the case for her. He was actually an expat."

" - so killing her solves what exactly -"

"...reminds people that doing things that are supposedly going to disappear is still illegal?"

"Prison does that too!"

"And if you have a sensitive job it is more illegal than if you're just helping some creep stalk her ex."

"Maybe you should make it stop being the case that 'I'm blue I'll make it disappear' is credible."

"Working on it but it's rather hard. - Voa doesn't have much of that, not that I expect you were in a position to appreciate it about them."

"Why do you have this love affair with Voa," says Katin.

"Well they were just talking about how they got into a fight over Voa in particular so it seemed relevant."

"We weren't under the impression they were unusually bad, it was just an unpleasant introduction."

"And I scared them."

"Scared them?" asks Grey Peka.

" - that part was our fault. If I walk into Olwë's palace in Alqualondë and say 'I'm furious with you, this is ridiculous, I want to suggest in the strongest possible terms that you cut it out', he will - parse it as that. If we land with ships they can't scratch and hear about miscellaneous atrocities left and right and say the exact same thing -"

" - sorry, what would Olwë parse that as?"

"Uh, 'this is a much bigger deal to me than most of the things we go back and forth about, and I'm willing to work very very hard to see it done, and I have lots of internal pressure in that direction also so tell me what you need to make it happen'."

"Ah. But not 'relations are deteriorating dangerously and I'm about to make it clear how to appease us' because why would that be a step in the dance, Elves don't war."