The baby looks shaved. 

Had to do that when Peka was younger too, her hair looked white. Have to look red if you are but hair doesn't make it so. Too ah too ee ay.

I'm not going to insist but I really think it'd be better if we knew, we're not going to be angry with you for warning us about something we should know.

That's really not how being red works.

Well, if you explain how it works then I'd stop misunderstanding how it works.

Sounds like a good way to die.

But you're not dead at home, right, and there people know?

She stays where reds are supposed to be.

- okay, but you didn't come here on purpose, you were randomly teleported, probably by a meddling deity, and if there's somewhere you're supposed to be and we know about it we could get you there.

Wow he super does not get it.

Correct! I don't!

Which means she and Katin are alive!

Macalaurë sighs. I will invite some engineers to come talk with you later, if that's all right?

Sounds pretty harmless.

You can let me or the guards know if you or Katin needs anything before they arrive.

She is a very hungry baby and the Elf will not get very long breaks. Where's the Elf's baby?

Oh, I don't have one. Elves don't have children during wartime, the Enemy would speak in their heads and try to trick them into making an awful mistake.

...then how does she breastfeed?

Elves can just tell our bodies to do things we want them to do. It might be hard for someone who never had a baby to know what to tell their body to do but I did, six hundred years ago.

Wow that is old.

Elves don't randomly die for no reason like humans.

She wonders why they have so few people then.

Well, there weren't very many to start, fewer than a thousand.

That doesn't make any sense.

...why not?