"Okay. I think I get it. Sort of."

Segda chitters.

"Can we keep going?"

"Okay."

Onwards!

"Tell another story. A longer one."

"Uh. Once upon a time there were two kingdoms, the Kingdom of the North and the Kingdom of the South, and they both mistrusted each other. The Kingdom of the North had heard that the Kingdom of the South was chaotic and half-run by criminal gangs and full of orcs and ruffians, and the Kingdom of the South had heard that the Kingdom of the North was greedy and dishonorable and looked for trouble with its neighbors. They both wanted to know what the other one was up to, so they raised and trained spies to go to the other kingdom and report back to their kings. But in a magical accident, the train got turned around, and both spies were deposited in a border town of their own kingdom. They were not very good spies, so they never figured this out. They saw such terrible things! Irresponsible governance, misery, privation, corruption, chaos, criminal gangs, greed, dishonor... the kingdoms became more and more convinced that they should attack each other."

"What are those things?"

"Which things?"

"That they saw."

"Uh. Kinds of people behaving badly."

"Why were people behaving badly?"

"They do that."

"Why though?"

"Uh, to make money, or to impress someone, or to get out of trouble for something else they did, or because they didn't think it through, or because it makes their life easier, or because someone told them not to."

"Wow. Humans are so strange."

"Do strangers never do bad things?"

"Not like that."

"You never take things that don't belong to you?"

"I think we don't do belonging the same way."

"This horse is my horse. If you took her while I wasn't looking, that would be stealing."

"Oh."

"If you got mad at me and hit me with a rock that'd be another one of the mean things people were doing in the story." 

"What happened next?"

"They went to war and many people died."