Huh. If you wanna take a few days before we see what happens on unmonitored dewitching, we could find some concerts or something probably.

I'm doing okay. I'm not as overwhelmed as I felt at the beginning and I've gotten better about thinking how I can make sure there's enough time for pretty things even if we're busy a few days. 

Okay, good.

I don't want to be a burden.

You're not.

I accidentally scared the airplane and we had to reset without finding that girl in Toronto.

...scared the airplane! Awww! You don't think I got my first few loops exactly how I planned them, do you?

...I did wonder how you figured out which car you could steal without getting in trouble, once I realized that stealing cars isn't a thing you're allowed to do.

...why would I be allowed to steal cars? It took me a while to notice this one was never moved during the course of the month and guess that it wouldn't be missed. I have a car but if I go missing person in it cops can find me by it.

At home if I wanted a thing I could just take it. It'd be rude not to explain why I wanted it but if the person wasn't around to explain to, then that'd be fine. So I thought stealing cars was maybe rude or something, but not like against the commands of the King or whatever I know you said it's not actually a King.

Wouldn't people wonder what became of their possessions if you walked off with them while they weren't around?

They could see it was me by the flowers and ask.

Oh right, those. What if they needed the thing in a hurry only to discover that you had it?

Well, that's why it's rude and you shouldn't do it without a reason, but things aren't very in a hurry in Doriath.

Huh. And people don't just get proprietary about the things, not wanting them touched...?

Some things? Like a fragile project in progress, or a sentimental item? Taking those would be really rude, but it doesn't come up much.

And I guess without writing nothing like my notebooks would ever come up.

No. But if we had writing I think we'd still just have it as 'it's really really rude to do that', the King wouldn't issue decrees. He prefers not to do that about internal things unless there's a lot of confusion and it's hurting a lot of people.

Social norms work for a lot of things but every now and then there's a human who just does not care and then we need something formalized so it can escalate beyond "wow, rude".

I mean, if you're on purpose disrespecting people they might just stop giving you things and then you'd have to make all your own clothes and tools and instruments and shoes and things.

But if you don't care if it's rude to just take stuff...

And you want to spend all of your time guarding it against people just taking it back? That's the sort of thing we would escalate to the King, probably. No one's ever done that.

Well, you could just leave it lying around and re-swipe it when you needed it again.

I'd worry about that person and try to figure out why they were acting like that, probably. Everyone hating you can't be fun.

Human doing that would probably have something mentally wrong with them.