"Aliens all think so, yeah. Anyway David's in there somewhere but I forget where exactly. He kills a dude with a slingshot and he plays harp and he's king unless I'm thinking of someone else."

"That's three different castes," says Adro.

"...well, that's the whole idea, right, he's a shepherd and that's why he made a good King because he got it."

"He's a shepherd? That's four. You can't be most of the castes."

"...why not?"

"It's just stupid."

"I guess the harp might have been more of a hobby." He looks it up on his phone. "He sent his friend off to die in a war so he could have his wife, is that a caste?"

"...I don't think so. Or it's the same as the slingshot one."

"I had forgot that part." He puts his phone away. Their shuttle has arrived. "Are you named after anybody?"

"I'm named after a king but names don't have to be the right caste."

"Was he a good king?"

"I dunno."

"Do you know what you wanna be?"

"I wanna be a firefighter or a florist."

"Cool!" The shuttle hops worlds. "I really liked driving my bus."

"Why?"

"Saw cool people, got to take them to Elendil and watch them come back with new stuff - they'd always be nervous the first time and then cheerful after that, like they were doing something they really liked - sometimes like they were getting away with something -"

"It's weird that we can just go here."

"We've got space. There's a whole planet in Mîr just for Dallas Cowboys fans."

"What's a Dallas Cowboy?"

"Sports team."

"That's a dumb thing to have a whole planet about."

"There are thousands of planets. The Empress prefers ones anyone can live on but she let the Cowboys fans have theirs."

"Is she also a lot of castes or just blue?"

"The Empress of Mîr? I can look it up -" He does. "Uh. She was - Amentan four-and-a-bit when she got recruited to be a magical girl and get into magic fights with witches and destroy them to protect people, and she had to keep resetting time to do it, and then one day the princess Lúthien landed on her and they figured out how to take the whole magic system from the aliens and use it to fix everything at once and got married and founded Mîr. Is that all blue?"