Sure, but 'talking to people' is the sort of thing that's in their nature. As is 'wanting to understand incarnates better'. 'killing hundreds of millions of people' isn't.

What would happen if something really unexpected showed up?

They would act according to their natures? If she's more specific she'll get a more specific answer. But there are literally no conditions under which they'd kill hundreds of millions of people. They would be completely different if they were the sort of thing that could ever be induced to do that.

Huh.

Well, incarnates are different! (Elspeth explains.)

And then she goes to visit Hex, Jake trailing after her.

They have been told about her, and are pleased to meet her, she must be a little tired of Elves. Mitros likes Elves but there are now a lot of them in Marlatia to give birth and Elves can wear on one. 

"Oh, I like Elves. They can all read minds and it's very Elspeth-friendly! Except not the Space kind and I think that's what you have here?"

"Yes, and I'd have had some reservations about inviting them over if they could all read minds."

"They don't have to do it, we could insist they promise not to. If any of the non-Space Elves want to come have spellbinder children."

"Yeah, but do the kids read minds, too?"

"Probably. Do they have to stay here until they're old enough to bind the familiar?"

"Don't think we know that yet, actually, has anybody with a spirit animal left?"

"Not that I knew of - maybe should first send someone who's not planning to bind theirs, just in case the answer's somehow that you lose it."

"Yeah, sounds like a plan. Pity we don't have a way to - extricate the ones that go to people who don't want to bind them."

"Well, another experiment worth doing is turning somebody from here into a vampire to see if that does the trick for working memory, although I don't know if that'd let you extricate a spirit animal in particular or if that's a hard system limit."

"That'd be lovely. My father's counterpart also promises unbounded working memory 'soon', but he's an Elf so he might mean 'five years'. Good thing he's still my father or it might mean fifty."

"I brought pamphlets!" Here they are. They are about turning into a vampire. "They're intended for Aurum cultural context though."

"We will see to it they get distributed here, and maybe edited to relevant context if it's needed - like, are you planning to try this on someone who's not a spellbinder, do you know what happens to familiars in the process..."

"It's never been tried on someone who isn't a native of Aurum at all, but my aunt can see the future, so she can check whatever results would be obvious right away - it's long term stuff that she wouldn't be able to catch. Worth noting is that animals usually hate how vampires smell, so we should probably introduce Mama and Cricket or something and see if that extends to familiars."

"That would be a problem, yes." He winces apologetically when Cricket's mentioned. "I got only a very confused account of the whole adventure, want to explain?"

"Sure, but fair warning, your newest alt is evil."

"My Elf alts all made some really terrible choices during the war, is that what you mean?"

"No, I mean he's a rapist and he tortured people and stuff."

"...the fuck."

"Well. Fuck. I assume that now he has been all stopped and everything?"

"Yeah. Delight took his Findekáno and put him somewhere else."