The email comes a few hours later:
Isabella,
Your tablet invited me to reach out to you - I typically don't, as people find it more stressful than it's worth. I should have mentioned that, as the Radch is much larger than most of our neighbors, the places that allow unrestricted immigration from here are almost necessarily ones that appeal only to a very small fraction of our population. I hope some of the more selective ones are more appealing; it's always good to have backup plans.
Magic and mysteries aside we are not in the habit of arresting children for innocent mistakes, or for less-innocent ones as long as they don't become a pattern. I'm sure you've gathered that magic and mysteries further incline us in this direction. Be conscientious by comparison to the baseline for unsupervised teenagers with a large expense account in a new place, but please don't make yourselves miserable. You're not going to be arrested.
On a related note - while I think I mostly scare you for practical reasons that are unlikely to change (not impossible! we could get you lots of clones living in twelve different independent polities and that I suspect would do it) it seems like at least some of the questions you have are ones I can just answer, and some reassurances you'd find useful might be ones I could just offer. If you can imagine those conversations being productive I'd like to have them. I promise they won't leave you worse-off.
- Anaander