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Aya chuckled and looked at the couple bickering while they arranged the financial downfall of the station that had imprisoned her and the fate of the mystery courier.

Devran smiled as they did their thing at high volume.

Kazi slowly looked toward them. “Devran, are you keeping her?”

“That is the plan.”

“When?”

“After Siloven. She wants to be mostly human for a while. After she finishes there, we will start the change.”

Aya nodded. “I want to warn my family that I am going to change.”

Devran smiled. “We have time.”

Kazi laughed. “That you do, brother. Now, let’s have a meal, and we can discuss final numbers for your lady.”

“Just like that?” Aya was shocked.

“You have no idea how far you have travelled or how arduous the clothing issue would have been if Tiffany and Devran weren’t helping you. I make it difficult to speak with me on purpose.”

“Why?”

“Because while I wish to help with judgment, there are many who find that justice is not what they wanted it to be, and others who do not seek enough.”

Devran nodded. “Like you. Kazi needs the reports. Emotions during testimony are chaotic, and he forms a bias against them unless there is a report to back them up. He has sent away petitioners until they could bring the reports during testimony.”

Tiffany nodded, standing next to Kazi now. “He’s a jerk, but all that extra emotion gives him a headache, which is why he meditates near constantly.”

Kazi snorted, and they walked down the hall to a dining room with servers departing after leaving meals for the two ladies.

Aya sighed. “Kazi doesn’t eat either?”

Tiffany blushed, and Kazi started laughing. Tiffany sighed. “He doesn’t consume food.”

Aya laughed, and they sat down and chatted while Kazi and Devran did the numbers.

Tiffany smiled during dessert. “So how freaked out are you on a scale from one to a hundred?”

“A three. Devran was the first friendly, mostly face-to-face, person to walk through my door who didn’t want anything.”

Tiffany snorted. “He’s a good... whatever they are.”

“Yes. He is also not in a hurry. That is important. So are you curious about the courier?”

“Duh. No kidding. So how do you think we can lure a traumatized Terran to Siloven?”

Devran touched her hand and linked his pinkie with hers. Aya smiled. “Devran says that he will try. She’s on call to different archives, and if he can offer one of them something special, they will send her to collect it.”

Kazi nodded. “I have something. A thousand-year-old judgment from Yikani. Or a ten-thousand-year-old judgment against Ra.”

Aya smiled. “That sounds interesting. I am fairly sure Ra would want it back. He seems the type.”

Devran chuckled. “Ra doesn’t care. He considers it a sign of his misdeeds.”

Aya cocked her head. “What was the charge?”

Kazi pulled Tiffany toward him. “He stole a goat and raised it to high pharaoh.”