"You mean, just send you out to take care of them the old-fashioned way?" It was my turn to study his face.
He nodded.
"I think we'll go with the court."
"Why?" he asked.
I didn't try to tell him that it was the right thing to do. He'd seen me kill people for revenge. It was a little too late to hide behind the sanctity of life now. "Because we're in permanent exile here in the human world and we need to adapt to their laws."
"It would be easier to kill them, and save the taxpayers' money."
I smiled, and shook my head. "Yes, it would be fiscally responsible, but I'm not the mayor, and I don't manage the budget."
"If you did, would we kill them?"
"No," I said.
"Because we are playing by human rules now," he said.
"Yes."
"We won't be able to play by human rules all the time, Merry."
"Probably not, but today we are, and we will."
"Is that an order, my princess?"
"If you need it to be," I said.