[Explaining lawyers and the law from scratch... Ethlyn has a lot of questions about what his home is like, but she'll put them aside for a moment to try and put together a cogent explanation.]

Well, in my home how it works is this. As an alternative to settling every conflict by the sword, we have a set of laws that everyone follows. If someone is accused of a crime, like we have been, the state appoints a judge. Then, someone tries to use logic to prove that we committed the crime. However, we could have our own lawyer who points out anything that could show we didn't.

Once both lawyers have made their arguments, the judge decides who was right, and either declares us guilty--in which case we're punished--or innocent, so we could go free.

[She won't get into things like treaties or property law or inheritances--just sticking with the most applicable basics right now.]