"Why do you think so?"

"If I were bad it would hurt."

"People who are bad generally have things going on that mean they aren't motivated strongly by that, or aren't hurt by being bad at all or think they won't be."

" - I guess that makes sense."

"They might feel guilty, but want whatever they get out of what they're doing more than they want not to feel that way; or they don't feel guilty and think they can avoid being punished; or they're thinking about other things completely; or they're wrong about what things are bad."

"How would you get that wrong? Like the Valar?"

"Some people don't think reds are people - or that it matters what happens to them, which is not exactly the same belief but pretty close. It wasn't hard to think that if you didn't pay much attention, and it was hard to pay attention because it was gross to think about that. It'd be harder to ignore the evidence against now but five or six years ago it wouldn't have been too weird."

" - orcs are not fun to think about but I don't think anyone thinks they're not people."

"We've established that Elves are different."

"You and Bella would make fine Elves. ...the Valar thought Bella would not but they were wrong. And mean."

"Sure sounds like it."

He harummphs at the absent Valar and goes back to making magic scrolls.

Harrumphing tiny alien child!!!

He makes scrolls! He tries to figure out what's wrong with his teleportation targeting! He tries developing a thing that specifies both mental signature and having been to a specified place. That's hard; he works on one that just finds someone who has been to a specified place.

He should probably be responsible about testing it or something but instead when he's got it he just goes invisible and teleports to someone who has been to his hotel room.

Blue fellow halfway across the country!

That is consistent with his spell working properly because it is a fancy hotel and blue people have a lot of money! He tries it again.

Yellow lady in bed with her husband!

Eeep oops.

He goes home.

"There you are! Where did you go?"

"Checking if I can specify places correctly. Give me a place, I'll see if I can target off it."

"I think the government would very much prefer it if you went places they'd checked out first, even though you can turn invisible."

"Is there a reason I should care what they think?"

"To be nice? Because they're helping you?"

"My dad is nice sometimes but I still don't do what he says."

"Presumably you have some way of deciding when to do what he says and when not to."