Aya takes notes on who proposes to form a batch and any reservations they want Amait to address and takes her results to Amait.

She looks through it. She nods. "I'll talk with them. Thank you very much."

"You're welcome."

She talks with them, at some length. She approves two people and their associated batches of twenty. She frees them and transfers the slaves.

Aya is pleased with herself.

She should be, it was a good idea. 

She explains politics and the favors she is trying to accumulate and the legal changes she is trying to get achieved.

Her cousin visits.

"...that's a good idea."

"It introduces an awful lot of complications mostly just to prove something I already knew. But yes, it's brilliant. Ayabel thought of it."

"Nicely done."

"Thank you."

She glances at Amait.

Amait leaves. 

"Uh. Hi."

"...hi."

"It really was a great idea. Congratulations."

"Thank you."

"She didn't give you one of the votes."

"I would be very expensive to free."

"Why?"

"I'm foreign and imports are taxed differently from immigrants."

"Ah. Are you okay with how things are now?"

"It's not so bad."

"I am comfortable on an hour to hour basis and accomplishing useful things."

"Okay. If there's anything I can  do -"

"I don't actually know what your resources are."

"We have money. Less of it than Amait. I can usually get her to do things I want - except for freeing them all, that was the only thing we really disagreed over - but I think you can pretty much also get her to do things you want short of that, if I'm reading her right."