"There is a security camera."

"He's probably doctored the footage. He bribed Lindiwe and did something to sabotage the mosaic tiles, so he's clearly put effort into setting this up."

"What did he do to the mosaic tiles?"

"I don't know, but he did something to make them all crumble to dust at once."

"I see. So you" (he indicates Cam) "claim to be a demon who was summoned by Anton's mosaic and destroyed it to prevent it from summoning more such demons, and you" (he indicates Anton) "claim that he set up an elaborate hoax to pretend to be such a demon, including bribing your employees, the sabotage of the mosaic's tiles through an unclear method and the hacking of the station's security cameras?"

"Yes."

"The specific mosaic actually was expended when I arrived; I wanted to prevent it being copied."

"So it's one demon per mosaic? Did you have reason to expect someone was about to copy the mosaic?"

"No specific reason but it's hard to be too careful when possible results of summoning the wrong demon include 'the planet is sucked into a black hole'."

"I see. So you're alleging that in the process of designing the mosaic Anton accidentally created a design for a dangerous occult demon-summoning ritual and you destroyed the mosaic to keep the ritual secret? Would you be willing to work with Anton to modify the design into one that you'd be willing be made?"

"I shouldn't have to modify my design over this nonsense!"

"It's a decoration for a public space. Working around other people's demands could be considered a part of the job."

"Will I get credit for it?"

"I can't unilaterally guarantee that but if he's willing to compensate the station for the additional work time I expect it can be arranged."

"I want to remain in charge of the design. And I am absolutely not letting him have co-designer credits."

"I really don't care about design credit. You just have to have it not say that you're summoning a demon. Uh, or anything else."

"It didn't say that."

"There was a line in the poem that technically said that."

"So you're asking me to change one line of the poem? It's not my poem, I just chose to put it on the mosaic."

"You could probably get the copyright holder's permission to do a modified version. Or use a different poem."

"The copyright holder is Sarah Flynn-Pembroke. She'll probably agree to do a modified poem, but I'll want it in writing that the changes are being demanded of me against my will so she won't hold it against me and I want a written disclaiming of creative involvement from the demon guy before I broach it with her because if he does wind up finagling creative credit for any of her work she will hold against me."

"In that case I think we need to escalate the matter to someone with the authority to formally demand the changes. Do either of you object to taking it to the station assembly?"

"I don't see a good reason not to just take it to the court, but if you want to make the assembly deal with a vandal telling a fantasy story it's not my problem."

"Whatever's the done thing is fine by me. I don't want credit for the poem merely being one of zillions of possible poems that don't summon anybody."

"We don't strictly need to escalate it higher than the infrastructure committee, but in either case we'd go via the sheriff, and the assembly typically prefers that particularly important or unusual cases be brought to them. The infrastructure committee might be better if you're wanting to keep this low-profile.

"I guess ideally if it's going to become high profile information that you can summon demons I should find a safer way to reveal that."