"I got on well with Aitim in particular, as random people who are not Aitim go I don't have a problem with you."

"It's really in his interests to spend a couple years up in the mountains not stressing people out."

"...because his brother was bad at politics."

" - because he enabled someone learning summoning who promptly went and destabilized the whole international order with it. The - mechanism by which a country communicates what behavior they take seriously and frown upon is punishing the people who do things like that."

"Can I talk to him in some other way? I don't care if he physically visits but I assume you're not having his mail conjured."

"You could email him while the door is open."

"Is his mail being read?"

"I don't know."

Aitim visits a few days later. "Hey. What's going on -"

"Warp alt! Telkam found her and taught her summoning and I managed to get her a letter. She has a ship and has not yet been arrested for eight counts of violation of the Prime Directive and could come to Amenta if that would be a good idea."

"Ooooh. Is she going to at some point be arrested -"

"Eight counts of violation of the Prime Directive! She flies around and sneaks warp equations to people."

"I mean, have they already noticed this, if not does she expect to be noticed, what happens when she is noticed..."

"Have not already noticed, she does expect to be noticed, then they put her in political prison for the rest of her life unless she can nip off to one of the planets she helped that didn't join up and they take her in."

"We'll take her. If that helps."

"She has no magical powers, so hopefully you mean this in some adequately friendly fashion even though your current political capital is constrained."

"If she finds us morally annoying I suppose she might be morally annoyed but I can make sure she has a comfortable amount of money and no one breathing down her neck and is well-regarded in the court of public opinion, if she'd like to have this be her place to land."

"That's good. What I actually wanted to ask about was whether there's anything useful she can do from where she is till such time as she's caught."

"It sounds like what she's doing is awfully useful, what do you have in mind -"

"I don't know, that's why I'm asking you. It may be that she should just loiter in Amenta's general area until warned that the Feds are on her and then retire on Amenta till she can sneak into Milliways."

"If she has Amentans with her going around giving out warp to new places will the Federation arrest her off our ship -"

"Ooh, good question, I bet not but it's worth asking her."

"I can assign some people you don't find too grating to go be diplomatic immunity if that will work."

"I shall mention it in my letter to her. Her mail label is 'to T'Mir'."

"Are we avoiding getting the attention of my government -"