"I wouldn't say she's getting all chummy with the Tamorans," Evanthe reflected, "more acting upon what she's learned in her experiences. Sanctions won't work as we've seen, an invasion would be most costly for any side in such a conflict, further isolation only worsens the situation. You give them a slice of what we take for granted, show measured kindness, and hope that somewhere along the way you plant the seeds for change from within. It's not an easy change any way you look at it, but the tools we've always counted on are dull and useless in this case."
Evanthe sighed and shifted a bit, "What I see is she's stated slavery is abhorrent and something Rokkenjima stands against like, well, 99% of the rest of Mundus, sanctions were implemented that only enslaved more people, the rhetoric only pushed them further away from even being willing to engage the outside world with any measure of trust. That trust will be needed if you want to get anything done, as they say in Achkaerin, she's looking at the long game here. It's similar in a way to her intentions toward Toshikawa: don't pressure them into a place that makes the situation worse but instead provide fertile ground for a better future."
"The thing is, yet again crisis strikes, Beatrice highlights some issues the international community may not be so comfortable with, and the usual play is put into action with those points cast aside. This is how bad actors get the room to breathe and, in this case, a young girl faces most certain death. There's a time, place and method for saying "hey, ya fucked up", and there's a time and place to get things done. The two aren't mutally exclusive, especially with the diplomatic links the two Empires hold under the present arrangement. Slava Lavosk has their breathing room, and you've the silent majority telling them they're in the clear essentially."
"I will say if something doesn't change, I may be expanding my diplomatic activities beyond the IDS side-project. I don't wish to, but I won't leave her standing there by herself when she's doing the right thing and speaking the truth: all these people care about Tamorans when they're in chains. When it's a Tamoran in Slava Lavosk, eh, not so urgent to them is it? It's a different world, to be sure, and not the one I saw our son growing up in..."