"There are people who fundraised a lot of money for both of you to get resettled and get anything you might need and not have to worry about work. I don't know if it's enough money for indestructibility or how easy it'd be to raise more but it's definitely enough for anything other than that."

"I don't understand how this happened."

"...because you were murdered as a consequence of Vanda Nossëo trying to figure out how to contact you, there was a big internal investigation. That meant that the situation made the news, and - does it happen in Rivik that something horrible happens to someone and it's not very different than other horrible things that happen but for whatever reason this one makes the news everywhere, and so lots of strangers are moved to help..."

"...not to reds."

"...well, no species in the universe other than Amentans believes in pollution so to us reds are just people who everyone is horrible to and things like that can happen to reds too."

Blink.

"And did, on like twenty planets, we just had the courts side with us faster than anyone else did. This is much much worse than the sort of injustices that usually make the news, see."

"...what usually makes the news..."

"...uh, on this planet things like 'grandpa died and will miss his granddaughter's wedding unless we resurrect him by the end of the week' or 'this kid with abusive parents committed suicide and said he didn't want a resurrection until he had a million dollars and a sports car and they weren't allowed on the same continent, how do we make that happen for him...' or pets dying, or homes burning down..."

"...you resurrect pets?"

" - no, no, that'd be kind of indefensible when there are people dead on other planets. But we grieve pets, and we keep track so once resurrections are easy we can do it."

She gets an email back from her son. She looks away to read it.

Weird locals give them space.

"My son says the - the green who killed me and the cop who killed my co-worker both vanished and the government is furious."

"They were arrested for murder. The government's been calling it 'vanished' but they got a notification that arrests would be made and how they would be made and how to visit them in prison and everything, and there's internet in prison, so 'vanished' is dishonest."

"Oh."

"If you want you can testify at the sentencing hearing."

"For the green?"

"Yes."

"...how are you going to try her for killing me when I'm alive?"

"Murder's still illegal even though we have resurrection, and there's not any doubt you were murdered."

"I don't think it's illegal in Rivik unless you kill enough of us that stuff doesn't get done."

"When a country won't prosecute murders that happen in connection with alien contact we do it for them. It's been the law for decades, it's mildly controversial in some cases but not in this one."

"...where is it controversial?"

"If the aliens just don't prosecute crime in general because they're anarchists or something, some people feel like it's unfair to - impose government in a context where people fundamentally don't even have the concept that any government could ever be legitimate. It doesn't matter that murderers mostly don't think the specific court trying them is legitimate, that's just a fact about how people tend to feel about getting in trouble for things that had social approval locally, but some people feel like it matters if they've just never encountered the idea that there could be a body who punishes people for harming others."