"Why not?"

"Because if you don't want someone to think about whether they'd be happier elsewhere you should marry them."

"...is that how it works?"

"Yeah."

"I'm not sure that's how it works with Elves, they have a different thing."

"They're not supposed to have sex without being married at all. Neither are humans really but less so."

"Well yeah except slaves don't count."

"But you're not a slave."

"I'm not totally positive? Anyway I used to be."

"Why are you not totally positive?"

...shrug. "I dunno. He says I'm not."

"But you think you might be."

"Maybe a little bit?"

"What is being a little bit a slave?"

"I dunno! Maybe I'm just really used to being a slave and wouldn't know freedom if it bit me on the ass. Just I'm not all the way sure I'm all the way not."

"I really think you should go somewhere where you are all the way sure you're not."

"Where?"

"Dunno. A not-evil Elf kingdom. Amenta. Something."

"I dunno."

Sigh.

"I don't wanna have to worry about how I'm gonna feed Cathei or find somewhere to sleep or anything, I don't want to go off somewhere strange by ourselves."

"We could, like, send a house-elf with you to do food and set up a tent and stuff?"

"A what?"

"Our family has house-elves, they take care of the kids and cook and things. if you want to leave but just don't want to be out on your own you could have one to help with Cathei and food and stuff."

"But what are they?"