"I think they've been ...trying? to figure it out but we've never heard of the place you're from."

"Figures. Has one of your prince people, if that helps you narrow it down."

"We know all the planets that have one of him and none have - whatever you are."

"Vampire. It's called a vampire."

"We don't have vampires on any of our planets. We don't have planets where Prince Turkafinwë Tyelcormo does the law, either. He doesn't like that kind of thing."

"Does the law? What?"

"He was involved in causing you to be chained to a wall? He doesn't - there are princes who would decide what to do about people who kill people, though they've never chained people to a wall here. But Prince Turkafinwë Tyelcormo is not one of the princes who would decide that. He doesn't do work. He doesn't like it."

"Oh, I dunno whether he had anything to do with that bit. He definitely had a lot to do with the being stabbed a lot, and he definitely shot Dru here full of holes."

"I didn't like it."

"That makes more sense," she says. "Those are things he'd do - uh, not normally, not here. You're safe here. But if you told me that someone had stabbed someone a lot and that it was Prince Turkafinwe Tyelcormo, that's not the wrong prince the way he's the wrong prince if you told me someone decided to chain someone to a wall."

"He's dead. I'm ever so disappointed. I meant for him to come back."

" - oh, he did come back. He said he had missed enough of his vacation for this nonsense and left in a flier with his dog but he came right back."

"Oh. We didn't see him."

" - well, you wouldn't have."

"I don't like this. I want to go home. We could go back to Italy. I liked Italy."

"There are lots of planets here," the woman says. "Even if you don't like this one you can find one that's a better fit."

"No, no. All full of terrible fairies. I want to go back, like it was."

"I'm sorry."