...you don't get credit for things your cousins do.

No, you don't. But I don't think she had the political capital to do it on her own. He might have helped, or she might have gotten other help.

But he probably wouldn't say if you asked him?

He might, but he could lie.

That's horrible.

Not all that horrible compared to lots of things about the world, but it sure doesn't help.

It seems more horrible than the other horrible things you have mentioned because the other horrible things you have mentioned have reasons and seem like they'd stop being that way if you didn't all randomly die and need space and stuff. But that one's just horrible because of people choosing to be horrible.

People often choose to be horrible, sometimes in ways much worse than claiming political credit for things.

But you don't do horrible things. So it is possible to not do horrible things.

Yes...

So it would be nice to just work with people who don't do horrible things.

If your standards include 'ever lying at all is horrible' that's gonna be really hard.

I don't think ever lying at all is bad? But lying to you about that question would be pretty bad.

Well, I didn't even ask. Maybe he'd have proof of some kind if I did, though.

It's okay.

It's stressful to try to think how maybe people are lying or want to start a war, when I'm trying to think about what to do. I guess if the whole world were like that and you had to think about it all the time maybe that would make people a lot worse off just by itself.

It doesn't help. Sorry.

It's okay. I will figure it out. It's just not the sort of thing I'm good at figuring out and I don't like it very much and I would like there to be a world that is just really nice for everybody without being complicated.

Well. I'll help you as much as I can.

Bounce. I can fly around here, right?

I'd ask, first, in case there might be satellites or helicopters or telescopes.

Who do I ask?

Aitim'll know who to ask if he doesn't know the answer.

Can I fly?

In an office on the other end of the hotel he jumps slightly. 

If you are invisible or stay inside, yes.

"I can fly invisibly. Or inside but inside is no good for flying."