Mysterious teleporting girlfriends are great! Do they wanna do threesomes.

Yes!

Okay.

Whatever he says.

Macalaure does not neglect his duties that much.

"I think you could probably neglect them even less."

"Breaks are psychologically healthy! Come to a concert tonight?"

Sigh. "Yes, all right."

They have all learned harmonies to a few songs! Peka's range is lower than Rabka's and Beka's encompasses both and then some on the high end but they can all hit a lot of notes and twine around each other prettily.

Elves are not hard to persuade to spend the evening at lovely concerts!

And Beka identifies the king and his consort to her counterparts.

Rabka had thought they didn't have slavery?

Yeah what the fuck.

"Hmm?"

Why is your brother keeping a sex slave.

It's not slavery, it's got nothing to do with owning people.

That isn't the point!

It seems like a pretty important point to me. What does your country do with people who start a civil war?

Not rape them! That's like actually a war crime!

So you just, uh, pat them on the shoulder and tell them to please not do that again?

You can execute them, that's fine, or just lock 'em up.

I don't really see how having sex with people is worse than executing them.

It's like... um... Like, yes, obviously, if you ask people if they'd rather die or get raped they will probably prefer the second thing but you don't do it 'cause... she wishes she had the internet, she's just gotten kind of marinated in this ethos and doesn't know exactly how it started or how the logic goes. ...maybe if you're allowed to use prisoners for things that are fun or useful you will take more of them than you really need or something?

- I guess if that happened a lot that'd be a good reason to have that rule? Nothing like the civil war had ever happened before the civil war so we were just kind of - making it up as we went along, with rules about what you can do.

It's still fucked up!