"Should we focus on finding a planet immediately, then?"

"I think teaching the greens is the best starting point. Teaching the greens and possibly making it clear you'll retaliate if people hurt reds, but only if you will actually retaliate."

"We will only actually retaliate if they know we will. I'm not sure what kind of retaliation would be—sufficiently deterring, though."

"You kind of have to be willing to kill people, yes."

Sigh. "What people?"

"If you want reds safe? Say that any time any red dies you'll look into it and execute the people responsible."

"And presumably we don't need that for any other castes because the justice system actually works for them."

"Yes. Not perfectly but well enough it wouldn't be an improvement to do it yourself."

"We can promise that and follow through," she sighs.

"I think it'll save a lot of people."

"Sadai will be—extremely displeased by this. They don't like compromising."

"Understandably. They probably don't have to very often."

"Not often, no, but this is a personality trait that has existed since long before we were even a vampire, let alone a magically enhanced one."

"It seems to me like not doing this is also compromising on something they value."

"It is, which is why it's so frustrating."

"I'm sorry I can't be more helpful there."

"We should be thanking you for all your help. This would be significantly harder and messier without you."

"You were doing a good job of being conservative and learning."

"Yes, until the snowstorm. I... expect I would have been able to prevent Sadai from doing anything harsher than what they were doing then but they would have suffered a lot about any other tragedies."

"Understandable."

"Am I still needed at this conference?"

"Not that I can think of."

"Then I believe I will return to my Sadai."

"Take care."

She catches a plane most of the way and flies the rest, and as soon as she's back she informs Sadai of everything in eidetic detail.