"I don't know how much elves value family, or if you'd have been able to get out. It's - good that monster found you."

"I think they'd have wanted him, he was a prince and stuff, but I wasn't really gonna be able to get out, but I figured I'd rather get tortured to death than have another twenty babies and have them all taken away!"

She nods, seeming sad. "Well, you are under our protection now, and if Inanna pulled you here I suspect she'd object to you being pulled back."

"Did she send the monster? It ate some orcs before me, I dunno where they went."

"I don't know. She doesn't often talk to people, outside of legends at least. But she controls this world, and is usually held to hold sway over who's allowed in."

"Okay. Well, um, thanks!" the orf says vaguely ceilingward.

"Though I'll admit I'm not as familiar as some with her tenets or personality..."

"Hm?"

"I don't know why she would do things, essentially."

"Oh... do you think it'll wind up worse later?"

"It's very unlikely to. Things are stable, here, for the most part."

"She likes stories," Sugira says, from where he's been busying himself talking quietly to his children about their studies. "And good stories glorify her. Mostly 'good stories' seems to mean romances, especially dramatic ones. Most people don't really have her directly relevant to their day to day life, though some people find it important to get her favor. You can get magic, doing that, if she thinks you'll make better stories with it."

"Ooh. I don't know a lot of romance stories, though. I guess I know some songs with romance in?"