Elves will bring her mysterious Elf food after it's been an hour.

Mm, mysterious Elf food.

Are you okay? asks Elf on call for Katin. 

Uh, I'm being held prisoner by aliens but I guess it could be worse?

That doesn't really seem to add up to 'okay'.

It is not super great. Why, you gonna let me go?

I can't. Where would you even go if I could?

Dunno.

Sigh. Singing.

It's nice, the singing.

We don't want to hurt anyone, she says when she's done singing. The Enemy sends people here sometimes and sometimes all they do is act normal until they murder everyone in sight or poison the well or something but sometimes it's worse than that. 

I never even heard of you guys before.

He can edit memories. 

So how do you know he didn't send you?

We have a setup for continual remote supervision, no one's ever alone when they aren't in a place with magic protections that'd notify us of his or his lieutenants' presence.

Wow.

It's a really awful war and it's lasted two hundred years and he's watching us closely enough that if we're ever careless he can always capitalize on that.

How's he watch you?

Through the telepathy. Anyone who doesn't know how to block him out, or who he's arranged to not do that, he can watch through their eyes and hear through their ears and read their minds. There's a way to block our telepathy with practice but not all humans can pick it up, so he can watch those, and sometimes people want to show a friend something and don't realize what else is visible if you're eavesdropping and sometimes - like, even if you took the class with the soldiers on how to block telepathy, we couldn't trust that you were actually doing it, because he could have sent you here with some kind of workaround none of us even know about, he's a god, they can cheat.

So you're not gonna bother to teach me?

If you want to take the class with the soldiers you totally can. Just, we can't assume if you do that we're safe. We can never ever assume we're safe.

So what's prison here like in the long term? Is this gonna be the deal with the baby too, forever? What if we have kids?

...the baby and future kids would be fine, if the Enemy can corrupt people remotely then we're all doomed anyway. Probably they'll just take you to a human village, in a bit, unless you want to stay here for some reason, human villages have supervision systems for people who might be compromised.

What's the system?

I don't know. Sorry. I don't actually work with humans I just jumped at the chance to hold a baby again, it's been so long...