Shrug. Well, it's different for kobolds. What do you mean about trust?

Treating someone as an equal, trusting them, respecting them, means believing that they know themself better than you do. Deciding things for someone, acting on what you think they should want instead of what they've asked for or communicated, means believing that you're better than them and they're not trustworthy and they don't deserve to control their own life.

...ah. Yeah, that's... weird, that you're thinking of it like that, that's not what I meant at all. It's... not deciding things for anyone, but making sure the options they have available include good ones? And making sure they can see the effects of their choices, because for a lot of us it is actually easier to see how our tribemates are doing than to notice how we're doing ourselves.

Huh. Well, obviously we'll try. 

Thanks. And you can come talk to us if you need advice - they ask if it'll be a problem for anybody if he shows up to talk to them; some of the Speakers don't want to give away where their tribes will be, but the rest are okay with it as long as he stays far enough away to avoid spooking anyone. If you come back at the end of the season we can tell you where we'll be spending the winter, the chiefs haven't decided yet.

Okay. I'll try.

Thanks. Snuggle.

D'you want to tell me what to do? While you're here?

What do you mean?

For things I should be doing for Rána.

I don't think I know enough about what things are like there to really answer that - it doesn't help that they've never been in my tribe, either, we're friends but I've never had the chance to get to know them that way. They consider. Have you noticed any specific problems?

They get sad if they feel like people aren't paying close enough attention. Everyone's working nearly all the time on the war and I think they're used to people having more free time. 

Ah. That's going to be a tricky one, especially with them having been exiled - it'd be a while before they felt safe again even if everything were perfect. Reminding them that they're valued will help, especially if you can do it in ways that aren't about the war and what they're doing for that.

Kay.

Them finding out what happened with their tribe should help, too. Not that it's good, but knowing that people did care that much, even if it wasn't enough to save them... they sigh.

Yeah, I think I'd be glad of knowing that.

Yeah.

I'm glad they found you. This whole thing has been pretty awful for everybody; I'm glad they managed to do okay.

Yeah. 

Yeah.

Anything else you wanted to ask about?

Same deal with the other one?

Other one?

Sorry, I figured they'd mentioned that. This kobold tried to steal someone's bag from them in the middle of the elven city market, so I teleported them out, but their tribe wouldn't take them back.

Of course they wouldn't, hexed like that. And they're still around?

Yeah, they're living with us.

Wow. How do you have that set up? I assume they're not a Speaker...