Macalaurës who have not yet seduced a Rebecca feel that they have been issued a challenge. They get to work on it.
He goes to Eclipse and does research. Eclipse makes him feel very uncomfortable.
Macalaurës who have not yet seduced a Rebecca feel that they have been issued a challenge. They get to work on it.
He goes to Eclipse and does research. Eclipse makes him feel very uncomfortable.
"For kidnapping their emissaries. If you attacked me, they'd prosecute that. If you attack people in Calado, well, you're an asshole, but they can't police the whole universe. I kind of wish they'd arrest you, because mugging people is horrible and Calado's law enforcement seems kind of inconsistent, but it's not how they work."
"I thought you were one of them, I thought if I didn't bother you you'd leave me be, and then you dunked me in the sea and I almost drowned."
" - I'm a bus driver, they're the government. They don't dunk people in the sea. It's illegal to dunk people in the sea, which is the whole reason they will want to talk to you at all!"
"...don't you have the whole color thing so the distinction is easier to understand? I am an alien. I drive a bus. Drove a bus. My country has a government. That government has some rules, like that you can't endanger people using teleportation, that it only enforces on its own citizens - and some rules that it enforces everywhere. Like - Calado only enforces rules about theft in Calado, right, but they'd enforce population control anywhere. And if some purple in Calado does something, that doesn't mean their government does it, right?"
"So. You can tell them to shoo but if you want to talk to them all they're gonna want is to get a victim statement and stuff."
He takes him to under the platform.
There is a different bus driver explaining that shuttles will continue for 24 hours to get everyone home safely but at that time they will cease, duration to be determined.
Those are official shuttles which their governments negotiated for and they work. Calado was just this one guy and he dunked a mugger in the ocean to disarm him which is super illegal so he's been arrested and emergency transit authorized for the next day to make sure everyone gets home safely.
Teleporters who aren't police aren't supposed to move people against their will at all, but taking him somewhere safe would have been legal.
"Look," bus guy says in his hearing, "people in Calado need a way to get out of Calado because the entire country is an unmitigated disaster. Find someone else who wants to do it."
"- this is a court."
"Yeah yeah - I couldn't think of anywhere else where the gun going off definitely wouldn't kill random innocent people, I know the rules, I understand that I hurt someone, if I were to be allowed to keep the teleport I'd make sure to know a larger definitely empty safe location to teleport people in an emergency before working a route there - I had a safe location but it was safe for 'building collapsing on people' not for 'nut with gun' - does that cover the court part so now we can talk about Calado -"
" - that is not how -"
"This is really important! I'll subsidize them if the problem is that Vanda Nossëo won't and no one wants to pay the stupid tolls! They live in Calado and they deserve the right to leave!"
The court is charmed. Bus guy gets a fine and a reassignment to a very safe route with a bar on visiting non-member countries.
Someone else inquires with same blue about recontinuing shuttle services.