" - I guess. It works fine when the stupid Valar don't stick their stupid selves in the middle of it."

"I wonder how your species manages to be like that."

"What do you mean?"

"Not having people who run around doing things that we have to make illegal and have enforcement against."

"If there weren't laws would you run around hurting people?"

"I wouldn't, but some people do even with laws."

"Well, I think we're all the sort of people who wouldn't."

"...I mean, that's convenient but I still don't know how it happened."

"I don't know how people who hurt other people happen, so it doesn't really seem more mysterious than that."

"Hm."

"Maybe once you have planets you'll all be nicer and not need laws anymore."

"...that would be interesting but it does not seem likely."

"Huh."

"Are people from Valinor going to come to find you?"

"They might try but they would have to invent teleportation first."

"Are any of them likely to figure it out?"

"I'm smarter than them but maybe eventually."

"Who's likeliest?"

"Probably Rúmil, he is my dad's advisor and likes Bella and doesn't suck."

"Well, that's better than someone who sucks coming along."

"If they sucked they wouldn't come try to get me. The thing that makes people suck is not trying to do anything."

"...to do anything about what? Most people are trying to do something, sometimes just bad things."

"...no, most people just don't do much about anything. It's not that they're trying to do something bad, it's just that they aren't trying enough to get Bella back."

"I think someone who didn't want to get Bella could conceivably still want to get you."

"Yeah, probably. But still, most people will mess up by not doing anything, not by doing something bad."