I don't know what an orc is but I don't think Satan has a castle. Unless maybe it's in hell.

I don't really know what an orc is either, I think it was inappropriate for children. But when my grandfather gets scared for no reason it's because where he grew up, sometimes orcs snatched people and then you never saw them again, and even though that doesn't happen anymore he doesn't totally believe we're all safe.

I guess Auntie Karen is kind of like that too. With the worrying about things that aren't good for kids.

Is she wrong to be worrying, though?

I dunno. There's definitely bad stuff out there.

Everything makes a lot more sense now that I know that your Melkor is not in jail yet.

I'm not sure we can send Satan to jail.

I think we kind of need to.

She chews on the end of a pencil she found.

Well, I guess if we HAVE to, then we pretty much need to convince God to do something or convince someone else to do something  or do something ourselves with magic.

I asked God to help with Karen being sad last night but I notice he hasn't done anything yet so probably we should keep asking but not count on that. Who else could we convince to do something?

There's demons? But I don't know a lot about demons because libraries don't have books about us. And I guess there might be gods other than God, 'cause he bothered to tell us not to worship them?

He did?

Yeah. It says so in the Bible.

What's that?

It's the book of all the stuff that God told us?

Oh. We don't have one of those, probably because no one can read. The Valar just tell us.

Oh. Well Auntie Karen says one reason it's important that everybody can read is that it means everybody can read the Bible themselves.

I guess if all the things God said were written down it'd be a good idea for everyone to read yeah. 

Anyway, I think if he said not to worship other gods then maybe there are other gods? Although I dunno if he wants us talking to them.

You can talk to people without worshipping them.

Yeah. I guess it does just say not to worship them.

If it says that specifically I think that means you can talk to them because if you couldn't talk to them then it'd just say that.

Then maybe it's fine!

I have no idea how to talk to other gods.

Me neither! Probably you need to know their names.

Hmm.

Zana types "names of gods" and is given an alphabetical list of Greek gods. All of the Greek gods. There are a lot of minor Greek gods.