"Auda, you want dinner?"

"Yes. Thank you. How're the faeries?"

Dinner! "Musical! Well, this one is."

Shiver.

"It was useful, they owed me a bunch. If anybody starts playing music at you that'd be different."

"They haven't, they've been very polite. Just - remembering stuff, I guess."

"Yeah."

"It's a different sort of person who becomes a musician if most of what it's good for is managing prisoners."

"He was reportedly talented at it as a very small child. But yeah, I guess it is in most cases."

"I didn't know faeries had children."

"Never seen any? I guess I haven't either. They must do it pretty infrequently, since they're immortal. But the ones I've been talking to the most are all apparently brothers."

"Huh. They don't seem like they'd be very good at parenting. - the women are like the men. It's very odd."

"I have no idea if they're good at parenting. The women are like the men?"

"They wear the same clothes and they do the same jobs and - and they'll - with prisoners - and some places they're in charge."

"That doesn't seem that odd to me but I guess it would coming from where you're from."

"Where is the place you're from -"

"I live in a place called Hell." Probably doesn't sound that much like Middle Ages German for the same concept. It's different in modern German.

"Huh. 

Men're the same everywhere - well, maybe not in Hell - but among humans women are different."

"Hmm... I think it's more complicated than that."

"For your kind of people? Or for faeries and humans?"

"I don't know that much about faeries. But my kind of people isn't inherently different from humans in this way, I think, it's just that humans grow up in a human society."

"I think you are very different than a human. So much it's hard to imagine any upbringing that could do it."

"But I was a human. I was born to human parents and grew up with humans and only turned into an apsel when I was 22."

"Human men aren't - this kind, or this patient, or this generous, or this disinterested, or - you were kind to the faeries, you didn't hurt them, and they'd enslaved you!"

"And yet I'm pretty sure my species change did not affect my personality at all! It was a really, really different upbringing."