"- my lawyer said I should say I fear repercussions but the thing she said you'd be able to do about that won't help."

"We can make sure any investigation that needs to happen doesn't implicate you."

"That isn't it though. They invited me because they wanted to be friends and knew I liked music and didn't think I'd go put it on the internet or whatever."

"Not wanting to damage friendships is indeed not the sort of thing the justice system insulates you from."

"What happens if I don't say."

"If we see fit to fine the parties to this little fiasco for trespassing or resisting arrest you would not benefit from sentencing reductions for cooperation."

"- hang on a second please -?"

She waits.

Has money from Maitimo hit her account yet.

Yep. It's actually enough to pay off the theft fines too.

"- does that interact directly with the probation part -"

"If you're convicted of something here the deferred prison sentence from your theft case can cease to be deterred, my discretion."

"But does the cooperation part interact or can not cooperating just cost me more money."

"The prison sentence from a previous conviction doesn't depend on cooperation in this case."

"- I don't understand how you talk, do you understand my question -"

"Not cooperating will not in this case increase how long you spend in prison by more than two weeks."

"Okay. I don't want to say who got away."

She nods. She asks more questions.

She concludes that Peka did not trespass or resist arrest and is free to go.

Iiiiis there some transportation help deal, she did not drive her van this time.

The court can't help her with that. She could ask her constituent services office, they might have a program that recompenses legal expenses for poor people.

Yeah sure. She will email her constituent services office asking if there is a way for her to get home that isn't "attempt, in broken Oahkar, to get someone to give her a lift in a vehicle they use for work".

There's a program that can cut her a check for lost wages/missed work, but nothing that helps with travel.

She pays the babysitter to haul Katin up to the jail in the van and then drive them both back and she tells the constituent services office that since reds can't just take the train like everybody else they should maybe work on that if they're going to require reds to be places.

They will look into expanding the scope of the compensation program and send her an update in a few weeks.

Yeah-huh.

She also emails Macalaurë. I'm out! Selfie of her and baby.