"Thanks! You're pretty nice, you know that?"

"I've been told. I like helping people. It is possible to get me mad, though."

Is that a threat, did he fuck up, how did he fuck up...

"...Of course. Uh. How?"

"Oh, by being a pirate, an unrepentant thief, harassing and trying to tell me what to do, trying to kill me or my friends. That kind of thing."

"I didn't do that, right? I don't remember doing that."

"No, no. It was a joke. Like, I'm nice, but I'm not nice enough to smile while you rob me? Eh, forget it." She rubs the back of her head, embarrassed.

"Oh. Well, I can see how pirates and unrepentant thieves would make someone angry."

"Yeahhh. The police can't catch everybody. They try, but... It'd be awful to punish someone for something they didn't actually do, so if they can't prove it, sometimes criminals go free."

"I always heard catching all the criminals was really important, but the place I came from was better at it than here and it still wasn't a very nice place to live. So I don't know anymore."

"This is one of those things where people disagree on what's best and most important. It's hard to figure out."

"Wouldn't it be convenient if everyone agreed on everything."

"We wouldn't really be people anymore. Or maybe we'd all be the same person. Not worth it."

"We could all be the best person."

"Nah. Doesn't work that way. The goodness of a person just goes up when they're friends with other people, in my opinion."

"How does that work?"

"...If everyone was happy but they're all the same person so they're all happy in the same way, that'd be boring?"

"They wouldn't be, though. Some of them would have to farm and some of them would build ships and some of them would study the weather..."

"But then they've learned about and thought about different things and they'll stop being the same person!"

"I know things I didn't know a month ago, am I a new person now?"

"A little bit, I think, yeah! I'm not the kid I used to be."

"That doesn't seem very useful for, I don't know, contracts, reputations..."

"Yeah, it takes years to be a really different person, and you're still, like... Sort of the same as you were before? Enough that you have to fulfill responsibilities, and your old rep is still useful to measure you by."

"So you can be partly the same person. That's kind of weird."

"I mean, makes sense to me."

"I think maybe different things make sense to people here than people where I'm from."