They are, as promised, there three hours later. They get an explanation from Celegorm before they're within sight. 

They walk in, request a long list of books from the bar, and then request a room and head up to it to read them.

Should I give the money to you or her -

I don't know! I'm not good at people stuff even when I know the people! - maybe to Azalea?

Kay.

Two minutes after they arrived they have all vanished. 

"I'll have to bring them food sometimes."

Oh good. If they're not doing things in her vicinity then she doesn't have to be conspicuously superfluous.

"Yeah. I guess so."

"Otherwise they'll all starve, they're a bunch of dumbasses." He says it very fondly. 

"Well. Lucky they have someone to think about food and stuff, then."

"Yep, I stab things and feed the smart people, that's how everything works."

"I mean that's cool? I don't really do anything, so."

"- you're not raising two kids and working full-time and dodging vampire loan sharks?"

"...technically. Except the working full-time, I think it's probably impossible to make it to work by a reasonable time from this particular vantage point."

"Okay, sensibly working around the vampire loan sharks."

" - I just mean I'm gonna get fired today. I try at things sometimes. I don't so much succeed."

"I got my Karen killed before she was even an adult."

"Was that actually your fault?"

"Well, yeah."

"Oh, well. Maybe we are both bad at things, then. I wouldn't know."

"Everyone's bad at things, Karen. There's a lot of things."

" - yeah, but some people are good at some of them. And some people are bad at most of the things that matter."

"I think most people are bad at most of the things that matter as soon as vampires are around mattering."

"Plausible."

“When I saw where the door opened I figured you’d be too freaked out to go get help, but you were fine as soon as you decided it was important.”

"I'm freaked out by lots of stuff. Just not, uh, mostly things that it makes very much sense to be freaked out by."