Beka is not sure what she was expecting as a result of walking into a snake monster but an Elf city would have been very low on a list of possibilities if someone had jumbled a lot of random words together into place-phrases and had her rank them. "Elf city" would probably have been under "spider void" and above "grape juice ocean". And yet here she is.
Rabka has tuned out to have a side conversation with Rebecca about how Pink II can totally have a lactation potion if the wizards have enough ingredients.
" - I would phrase the problem as 'someone is suffering a lot, and also inconveniently the form this takes is one that modern societies have a very strong taboo on because having a very strong taboo on it dramatically reduces the rate of all kinds of problems, and yet more inconveniently one of the ways strong taboos are enforced is by being really appalled at violations even if they're committed by people who couldn't have been deterred by your taboo because they have been planet-shuffled by mysterious possibly-snakes.
And the solution is just 'find ways of expressing your defiance of the Valar which involve less suffering and which won't run you into this problem'. I actually bet we've invented lots of things they'd disapprove of, going off, uh, descriptions."
"I don't want to stop having sex with people who want to have sex with me just because they're prisoners."
" - look, if you'd known any of this your military would have rules about conduct towards prisoners which meet the standards for that sort of thing, and then you wouldn't be trying to swim through a random alien taboo that makes no sense. Before the next time your military takes prisoners you should have those written up. But you didn't, and without that, sure, you're trying to invent something from scratch that was very much not invented from scratch in most civilized societies, and you're trying to generalize from a single-digit number of wildly atypical situations, and that's just a bad way to come up with military procedures."
"I didn't touch my Beka because of the thing where it is evil to have sex with people who can't turn you down."
" - she might not believe me, or she might think that I really wouldn't rape her but I'd be more inclined to have her killed, later..."
" - well, if you say to someone 'have sex with me or I'll kill you', that's bad, right, so if that's the situation then it's bad even if you don't say it outright."
"I think the idea is that if you're allowed to kill her, like if she's your prisoner, then you're always sorta a little bit threatening to kill her."