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The Valar announce that they've done as much as they can in Singularity (they can't bring back peoples' babies in that critical period either, but they can get them earlier versions) and are setting up portals between there and Sanity as soon as they are confident they've cleaned up the plague. A bunch of Elf architects have this wild idea for a fivedimensional city where alternating intersections are interdimensional portals between various Valinors and they get eagerly to setting it up.
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through-the-free-fall
A judge reprimanded their lawyer for digressing too much into complaints about the conditions on Ganymede in her defense of Celendra. But does she happen to know anyone qualified to pursue that complaint on its own, Elves would kind of like that complaint pursued.
through-the-free-fall
They would like Ganymede to stop gagging demons and to give the daeva more flexibility to hire their own defense attorney and participate in preparing their own defense, and while they're at it to allow them to use their magic in cases where it's necessary for disability accommodations (like for fairies who never learned to walk), and - "honestly what I want is to make them switch to the Elven system where we just send offenders back to their home realm unable to ever take summons again, but it seems like lots of pending litigation for prison conditions might be constructive for pushing them in that direction."
alicornucopia
"Will you settle for them instituting these protocols going forward or do you want them to try to recapture their entire population under the new conditions?"
alicornucopia
"It's not impossible but pursuing that means making different arguments and reduces the odds of the first, at least of getting it with the initial case."
through-the-free-fall
" - I was going to have someone conduct an internal review for any more miscarriages of justice, I assume we'd retain the option to pursue those even if we're not aiming for recapture of the whole population -"
alicornucopia
"If you go after the GCP for similar things too many times in too close succession, you wind up running into laws intended to prevent harassment by legal action."
through-the-free-fall
"That seems like it shouldn't rightly apply to pursuing appeals for different people against whom they committed wrongs - is it harassment by legal action to have charged Cam with fifty million counts of murder, given how he actually did in fact murder fifty million people -"
through-the-free-fall
Nod. "In that case let me get back to you on which strategy we want to pursue once we've done a review of the existing cases."
through-the-free-fall
And if they interview all of the daeva and look at all of the rest of the cases -
alicornucopia
Murders, most less defensible than Celendra's. Rapists. Property damage. A couple weird crimes like getting a dozen random people pregnant or attempting to overthrow the government of Switzerland or the furniture angel.
through-the-free-fall
The Elf who was interviewing the guy who got a dozen random people pregnant vomits on the spot and has to leave. They tell the lawyers it's fine to just push for a change in procedures from here forward.
through-the-free-fall
Elves are satisfied. They reach out to the GCP to reiterate that sending daeva back to their home realms under a humane binding is always an option.
alicornucopia
Well, they didn't actually let the GCP see it done so they're still skeptical. Also they checked and the fairy and one demon they recommended to the Elves earlier are not even on summon right now, their circles are still live.
through-the-free-fall
Yeah, they're on the magic-dampening planet Varda set up for them, do they want to send observers to take a look?
through-the-free-fall
"They can't take summons from there, they're effectively neutralized, the only difference between that and sending them home is that they're not at home."
alicornucopia
The Elves really need to get the hang of saying what they actually mean and not things that they think are similar.
through-the-free-fall
"I hope it has been expressed at some point that Elves experience prison as torture. To us it looks like you are torturing everybody constantly. I get a lot of questions from home about how we can in good faith have any kind of diplomatic relationship with a society that has prisons, at all. We are very committed to overcoming this cultural barrier but I think it will take a great deal of work on both our parts."
alicornucopia
The GCP is not generically unwilling to entertain alternatives but it is going to insist on knowing what they are and how they can confirm that, and vague descriptions later proven inaccurate are not helpful. They are not imprisoning daeva at the Elves, and daeva are not themselves Elves, so this seems like an Elf problem.