"Who's the Enemy? Is he like Shaw?"

"Kiddo. My mother had a Shaw. I barely even hate him any more, because Morgoth--the Enemy--is so much worse."

"That's bad."

"The Enemy's really, really bad."

"Shaw was really really bad," she says, clinging to her alt. "...I think mine was worse than hers. Had more opportunities to be bad. But I told her about it and she still says this guy is much worse and I don't understand how someone could be so bad."

"And part of why I don't want you reading peoples' minds is that I am not sure it'd be at all good, for you to know that. And I know they'd feel very invaded if they knew you'd read it from them."

Nod nod.

"I'll try really really hard."

"Thank you. And if you find yourself in my world somehow, which I don't think the bar does, find Elves and ask after Celegorm, not after Tyelcormo, and be careful."

"Okay. Who's Celegorm?"

"It's the name they'll know me by. Asking for Odette's probably even safer, but she travels more."

"How come they know you by that name?"

"Speaking my language or my name in my world is against the law and can get the people you talk to hurt."

"They outlawed your language? That's evil."

He smiles at her.

"It was an evil in retaliation for an evil. That's how people are."

"Two wrongs don't make a right," she asserts firmly. "You don't attack peoples' culture."

"Didn't say 'made a right'. Don't even think I believe in that. Said it's how people are, and it is."

"People are dumb."

"Yeah. Try to do alright by them anyway, 'kay? Teach them magic so they don't die. Maybe with time they'll get better."

"Of course I don't want anyone to die!" she exclaims. "I'm better than them."

"I do not doubt it in the slightest."

"I'm gonna teach everyone magic and they'll all know it was me and everyone in the world who hates something I am is going to know that they owe their lives to someone who is that thing," she nods firmly.

"There a lot of people who hate something you are?"

"Some people don't like mutants and some people don't like Jewish people."

"I'm sorry. I doubt this'll change their minds, but I bet they'll use it anyway."

"I'm going to be the first Great Mage on my planet."