"I'd definitely not suggest you mention your idea to Sadde right now, when she's alone and unlikely to be approached by anyone," he tells Fëanáro in an undertone.

Bounce bounce bounce - hey, Sadde, I told the PRT that if they tried to make you go home and you didn't want to I'd teleport us some place that has less stupid laws.

She looks up from her book, startled, and looks around, looking for Fëanáro. - what? Laws...?

Here is Fëanáro! The wingspan makes him pretty noticeable! I don't know if there are places with better laws, if not we can just go to the Moon.

Do you mean, like—my father—you can make them not take me to him...?

Yep. I got new parents because my birth ones weren't working out, you should do that.

They wouldn't believe me about that when I told them, they said I had to be with him, and he's a butt, and I'll become a villain if they make me live with him.

Well, you shouldn't become a villain, but anyway they listen to me because they can't stop me.

That's so cool. And you'd—do that for me?

I want to fix everything for everyone.

Well—I do, too, but—you have to choose a first thing to fix, I guess and—thank you.

Of course. I also tried convincing Legend to let me tutor you instead of you going to school but I don't know if I won that one.

Oooh that'd be so cool then you could teach me all the things the adults think I'm too dumb to understand and if I were too dumb to understand then I'd just know it instead of just assuming.

I don't think you're too dumb to understand, and if it's not working I'll try better ways of explaining. 

Well I'm eight there are things I probably won't be able to understand no matter how much you explain them.

Maybe. Or they might take so long to explain you're not eight by the time they make sense. 

Which is more or less the same thing.

Not really? I'm twelve in Valian years and I don't know if there are things I can't learn because I'm twelve and don't have the brain for it yet compared to if I can't learn them because they have a lot of prerequisites, but it does seem like those're different. 

There do have to be some things, though, because if you turn vampires really young it's a disaster.

Vampire?

(Oliver is quite amused by the string of facial expressions crossing Sadde's and Fëanáro's faces.)

Different kind of Earth has vampires. If you turn into a vampire you stop maturing, and if you turn kids they're - uncontrollable, they have meltdowns that can kill hundreds of people, they can't really be taught and they never grow up-

Oh. So there must be some difference, then. Maybe it's a human thing?

Maybe. No one's tried turning an Elf kid for obvious reasons. 

Could you hire a precog here to see if it would work out okay?

Are they that precise? Legend made it sound like they weren't good at results of experiments - we've got a precog back home too but you have to actually intend to do the experiment for her to get any results -