"I haven't met him."

"I have," says Thiaben. "He was not scary."

"I haven't met any blues - blues are the caste of being in charge and important."

" - you don't need many of those. It's not really a whole job."

"They're about one in two hundred people. Some of them don't do jobs, they just have money anyway from their parents."

"Huh. Círdan is in charge because we - everybody says who they want to be in charge and then it's whoever the most people wanted. Most places don't do that but we do."

"Democracy. A lot of Amentan countries are democracies. But you can only vote for blues."

"We could vote for anybody. I think. Most people voted for Círdan."

"And reds can't vote."

"Reds?"

He touches his hair. "Red." It's a dark currant-y color.

"I don't see why you'd do - democracy - and not let people vote. That's - that's the only reason to do democracy is so people can vote."

"Most people can vote."

" - that's not - that's even worse than not having voting, I think."

"Is it?"

"If you don't have voting then, all right, you just think that the person who is your Círdan is good and should keep doing it. But if you have voting only for some people it's like you are saying they're better."

"Yes. And different people who can vote can vote different amounts."

"I think maybe your planet does not understand what voting is for."

"For?"

"Why voting is a good thing to do."

"Maybe. I don't really know."

"It's - the reason to have voting is if you think that a country cannot be - cannot have the right to ask things of people - if they did not have a say in it. Or because you think that countries will be better if they listen to voting. Those do not work if you don't just let every person vote."

"I think they think the second thing works best if the smartest people vote more."

" - but who thinks that? The people who got voted under the bad voting system!"

"I think most people on Amenta think it."

Elves look dubious.