"...what, really? People would just... volunteer to be murdered?"

"We're easy to put back!"

"The being murdered part would still not be most people's idea of fun."

"I'm sure someone would try it to see what it was like if you don't go in for anything prolonged. Depending on the details you might not have repeat customers."

He snorts and shakes his head. "Wow. Makes a big difference, I guess, everybody being basically immortal."

"It does. Dwarves pay a lot more explicit attention to safety hazards - I think they might do that anyway, just to price them in, and they definitely don't have our reluctance to compromise aesthetics to put in railings and warning signs and such, but even allowing for that. And humans seem farther along the axis."

"Wow, I wouldn't even have thought of that," he says, "the railings and warning signs—yeah, of course if falling off a cliff is a temporary inconvenience at worst, you're less motivated to make sure it doesn't happen—I cheat, of course, when there's a section of edge where railings would ruin the view I just magic the wind so you'd have to be trying pretty hard to fall off."

"We have some of that in Valinor, but a few people have a taste for unimproved wilderness. Of course, Elves also seem tougher and nimbler than humans - it's probably harder for me to fall and harder for a fall to kill me from any given height."

"Unimproved wilderness being the kind where the wind won't rescue you if you fall off a cliff?"

"Or turn aside an animal that thinks you look tasty, etcetera, surviving only by some combination of wit and skill and luck. I know someone who moved to Endorë to wander around it; Valinor was a bit too tame for him."

Giggle.

"Sometimes he comes back but makes a point of telling all his loved ones he's actually there for the dinosaurs."

"What's a dinosaur?"

"Bird-reptile creature. Some of them are huge."

"Ooh."

"Endorë doesn't have them but he climbs mountains and such. He used to hunt but people have become uncomfortable with that recently."

"Hmm? Why?"

"We don't exactly think it's awful if animals die but we're definitely less easy about killing them, and we've invented ways to get meat that don't require it. Orcs used to have - farmlike institutions - that produced meat from animals incredibly efficiently but were deeply cruel to the animals, but they were willing to replace those when we had a solution."

"Huh."

"We also got them to accept birth control even though they didn't see the need nearly as urgently as we do."

"...mm?"

"Elves find the idea that someone might have a child without intending and wanting to horrific. Orcs like large families and aren't terribly concerned about exact timing, so they didn't mind not having a way to prevent conception, but they took one when we offered. I'm not actually sure to what extent humans have that."

"How much we want kids varies a lot. I don't plan to have any; having me for a father seems like it'd be miserable for just about anybody."

"Is the reason you can effectively plan on that magical or something anyone can get?"

"—oh, they make artifacts for it, I'm not at all the only one."