"I suppose this is our brand of conservatism."

"How would you handle T'Mir if she were arrested?"

"She'd get a trial. It'd be a little hushed up, because we wouldn't want the idea she had publicized more generally, but she'd get a lawyer and a fair assessment of the extent to which she broke the law, did so informedly, any mitigating circumstances... Assuming she were convicted it'd be a political prison, probably Niamh, I can get you a dossier on conditions there if you like."

"In Anitam we execute people for most serious crimes."

"She's not in any danger of that."

"It's not impossible that the Federation would be able to achieve that but it'd certainly be an extraordinarily costly political fight internally. What do you think we'd be able to tell our people they gained from that?"

"It'll be much easier to found friendly relations with Amenta generally on the principle that we won't be enabling each other's citizens to escape the consequences of serious crimes."

"Will it be impossible to agree on an extradition treaty going forward if it's only going forward?"

"Not necessarily, but it will make it harder and the Federation might insist on different, less cooperative terms."

He talks with some people. "I think we should plan on an extradition treaty going forward."

Ambassador K'riohgann(v)or sighs.

Amentans show him sights.

He is appreciative of sights.

And theatre and television and museums and dancers! He can stay in this very nice hotel in Lina. It has thirty-two million people now, what with the baby boom.

That's a whole lot of people. His entire species has about that many people.

...wow. That's really not many at all. Is their world very sparsely populated?

It's mostly water and ice, so yes.

The Amentan population is soon going to be fifteen billion.

That's a lot. Humans have more than that but have been colonizing a long time.

How fortunate for them! 

"They're not going to send T'Mir home but mostly because she knows summoning," he reports on the next occasion he sneaks into Milliways.

"Well, I suppose that's still nice of them."

"It's adequately nice! Often that's the best one can do with my ridiculous species."

"Were you always this exasperated with your species?"

"They used to be worse and I accordingly more exasperated. I like them all individually, though."