Frown.

"None of you are going to go to prison. You certainly aren't, no one's even accused you of participating. But you know what a judge, blue or black, absolutely hates? People wasting their time."

"Fine."

"So can I have a nice orderly statement that doesn't make anyone in the court system feel like some purple thinks they're stupid? And then you can get back to work and forget all about it."

"I don't give a shit about the greys or the randoms but I don't want Kahe in trouble, I went to make sure she didn't do anything really dumb."

He nods. "I can get the head of the justice department to sign off on immunity for both of you, right now. On the condition that this explanation doesn't have any sneaky minor lies."

"I will tell you all the truth you want about the greys and the other four."

"Okay." He calls his boss. Video.

An Elf reads her a rather long restatement of 'immunity for both of you for a good description of everything else'.

"Okay," she says. "Kahe made these sketchy friends after she moved south, I don't know if she actually likes them or what but she follows them around, one of them is called Anado but I don't know his last name, other three all men and I don't know their names, they know the greys. Kahe kinks on some shit, I don't know all the details past what I need to make jokes about it blind drunk. And surprise surprise so do her friends also kink on shit and then Anado sees this little movie of an Elf snuggling a corpsefucking red, singing to it, and that just - that just isn't right, you know -"

"It's disgusting," he agrees. 

"And they were like, what does it think it is some kind of slime princess, and I don't know how they decided they were going to go fuck with it but they decided that and Kahe is such an idiot sometimes and she said if she didn't go they'd think she'd rat, because for some reason you touch garbage even if you shower after people chase you down, at work - is my boss going to pay me for this quote unquote break -"

"I can tell him you were very helpful."

"That means no, doesn't it, fuck. Anyway so she didn't want to back out so I came with and made sure we chalked the place and shit. I didn't fuck it, I'm married."

"Why bother arresting it afterwards - it wouldn't have reported, but now it told a judge the whole story trying to get out of the willful pollution charge -"

"That was the greys, maybe they thought it would report? Since you people have to follow up every time someone looks at one square on? We all fucking washed."

"I'm glad of that," he says fervently. "Thank you, that's all I needed. Have a good day."

"Kahe gets no time, right?"

"This agreement won't even let them arrest her, promise."

"Good." She flips her hair and stomps back into work.

He sends Peka Kahe's picture and pictures of all Anados in the forty thousand.

Peka recognizes Kahe, yep, and that one of the Anados.

And he sends the tape to the judge and principal investigator, recommends they drop the case. 

They drop the case. Peka is notified that she's free to go. 

She emails the babysitter asking for a ride again.

And he holds her. But tries not to be holding her too tightly or anything. "Are you sure you want to go back - if they haven't been arrested yet -"

"Katin," she says.