They circle the planet and look at the architecture. They are somewhat disappointed.
"Maybe the aliens think they're pretty," someone says dubiously.
"No," someone else says. "Some things are universal."
"Maybe the aliens are all blind."
"That makes more sense."
"Well we have to pick somewhere."
This place has a lovely large statue-garden-monument thing that Elves would not go out of their way to avoid if it were in Tirion, though they'd probably walk through it quickly. They go for that one.
"Peka Atan, charged with assault, trespassing, pollution violations, resisting arrest?"
"I'm supposed to get your side of the story before I read you the police report so you aren't tempted to, uh, match the evidence better."
"I dunno what they said happened, they'd've had to make something up. I think they - saw somebody's video of - of Prince Canafinwë visiting me at home. And didn't like it."
"Prince Canafinwë visiting you at home?"
"Uh huh. Okay. So your story is - they were upset about that and framed you."
"They hurt me. I don't know if they cared about framing me or just did it to explain -" She touches a bruise on her cheek.
"Can you describe what happened, starting with what you were doing before you saw them?"
"I was playing with my daughter. She can run now, I was chasing her, making sure she didn't get out. Caught her near the fence. There were two greys and - six purples, I think, might have been five or seven purples not sure. There was nobody else around. I don't understand Oahkar that well but I caught most of it - they said 'hey pink, come here' and I pretended not to understand -"
He takes notes. "Could you identify all of them?"
"Most of them, if I saw them again. I might miss a couple. They didn't say their names."
"They were standing outside the district?"
"If I pull up a satellite picture, can you identify where all this happened -"
"Did you have your pocket everything on you, was it on -"
"They took it. Threw it on the ground, I think inside the fence, I didn't see where it landed, it's probably dead from mud and rain by now."
"Was it on when they took it?"
"Continue, please."
"I don't remember in exactly what order they said everything. They said Macalaurë wasn't there, they wanted me to bow, I bowed - tipped them off I could understand them - one said 'I think I saw that kid go under the fence' - and 'the kid's got orangey hair I think she likes fucking people better than her' - told me to put my baby down and shoo her back into the tent city -"
"Does the kid have orange hair?"
He makes a face. "Uh huh. Did you put her down and shoo her?"
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