"- to orcs?"

" - no? We ask them wear scarf so no uggggh but if they no wear scarf, okay, they can still visit."

"...scarf?"

"It helps. With orc uggggh."

"How?"

"Don't have to see them."

...Nelen gestures at his eyes, confused.

"Orcs hurt look at because ughhh. You - not Elf but not at all like orcs. You like a rock."

"I look like a rock?"

" - like, no one made you to be pretty to look at but also no one made you to be awful to look at. Did not intend mean, just. Elves like to look at rocks fine."

"...orcs are just ugly?"

" - yes."

"Oh."

"Really really ugly."

"I thought maybe they were - dirty -"

"...then they could wash. Ugly always."

"Oh."

"We give them scarves no - they no need give thing for the scarves. But some say 'no, no scarves' and come visit and it hurts."

"Where I'm from dirty things hurt people."

"Oh. Dirty things not hurt Elves, we just clean them."

"There are dirty things that just stay that way."

"There are?"

Nelen nods.

"That sounds hard for your people then. Can you put them under rocks or in the ocean?"

...he goes through the portal.

But only for twenty minutes.