"Aliens: different. What a surprise."

Aliens are very surprising! And your world's - general way of existing is very surprising. But that you are different from us, not so much.

"Yeah. Do you have more questions about anything that's cropped up -"

What do you do about marriages where one person forced the other, do you just declare it doesn't count?

"Uh, in countries where marriages can be legally valid without both parties' consent that probably isn't a problem they're trying to solve at all?"

...okay... but the other ones declare the marriage legally invalid? 

"The... other... ones... don't declare them married in the first place? Like, if somebody just kidnaps you and is like 'we're married now' then, in fact, they are just wrong about that."

- ah. If Elves have sex then they are married.

"Oh...kay... for humans they are correlated but separate."

Well, that's good.

"It had never occurred to me before to be grateful for it particularly but I guess!"

Our way works fine but, fine given that the society is our society. It seems like it would work badly here.

"Yeah, I agree."

May we go around and look at houses?

"I would be happy to show you around - uh, what's the purpose in the expedition?"

I am curious about the variety of your architecture.

"Oh, if you want variety walking around won't get you much, I could pop you around to look at various styles."

People cluster by taste? I suppose that makes sense...popping around sounds great.

"It's not exactly that they cluster by taste, taste is shaped by local precedent and climate. Do you both want to go, it's separate trips - Alli, you coming -"

"Nah I'm good."

If it's not too far I can just watch through his eyes.

"There's some variety just around here but a tour of all the highlights gets thousands of miles away."

Then both of us, yeah. Thank you.

She pops them to Vancouver first. Up in the air first, then down in a clear spot.

Elves are visibly more relaxed! What interesting buildings!