Communication plays an important role in reparations. Through communication survivors learn about the opportunities and avenues available to them, and through communication courts are able to ascertain survivors’ views and preferences regarding reparations. Such communication is not straight-forward but involves a range of actors who facilitate and mediate communication. Often little appreciated, these actors’ communicative practices shape in significant ways how reparations are framed, perceived and acted upon. This chapter examines two specific forms of communication of relevance to reparations: outreach and consultations. It shows that communicative practices in outreach and consultations at the ICC and the ECCC became dominated by concerns over managing victims’ expectations, in effect trumping the original goal of two-way communication. These practices also determined critical parameters of court-ordered reparations long before judges even embarked on the adjudication of reparations requests.