" - people do, to be clear, also try to discourage young men from immoral conduct!"

"Maybe you just said something perfectly reasonable with odd emphasis."

"If somebody turns up pregnant, whoever got her that way can run off somewhere and forget about it, whereas she will continue to have to deal with being pregnant," says Bella. "And some humans would, in fact, run off. So treating the circumstance as a hazard to women is more workable than treating it as a thing that two people might get each other into together."

" - oh."

"No Quendi would ever run off?"

"Of course not! - I guess conceivably if someone was very overwhelmed and distraught they might, and then probably everyone would go find them and figure out why they were feeling that way and conceivably the Valar would step in to delay the progression of the pregnancy until they'd sought counseling."

" - wow."

"They can pause pregnancies? I didn't know that."

"They have never done it but I know a woman who got very sick while pregnant once and it was mentioned as among potential solutions before they found something better."

"Huh. I didn't know you ever got very sick either."

"A lot of people arrived in Valinor in fairly fragile shape, at first."

She nods.

"So the Quendi are just - so lawful they don't need to worry about misbehavior, ever?"

"Sometimes people get married carelessly?"

"By which he actually means that Quendi have magic soul marriage which happens automatically when they have sex, and occasionally some Quendi don't wait to be engaged for a full Year during which they are supposed to not see each other in person, and instead go ahead and get magic soul married in a manner that appears premature to those around them."

"Are you sure that Arda isn't just some lawful - neutral? good? - side plane with outsiders who look weirdly humanoid compared to most of them -"

"Good. I think. I didn't rederive any alignment detection spells while I was there. I guess I can't be sure but at a certain point isn't it quibbling over definitions? They have kids. They can die, it's just temporary if the god of death has decided to do his job that day. As far as I know none of them have ever been summoned to do epic battle."

"Fair. It's just, there's all this theory that you can't have a society where all humanoids are lawful and if you can then many books will have to be rewritten." He doesn't look regretful.

"I'd suggest checking but there are only two examples here, I don't know if any others will come visit, and I cannot at this time wholeheartedly recommend being a human in Valinor because even if all they try to do is send you home they do not have good aim."

"The tiny one doesn't seem that different from me and I'm not lawful but the differences wouldn't have to be very large, I have ever read that way."

"I honestly don't know how he'd ping. You're all very concerned with it here, I suppose that makes perfect sense with a legible afterlife assignment system."

"Your world's system sounds horrifying. This one - well, it's not just, and it's objectively kind of horrible and stupid, but anyone operating in it can informedly do fine for themselves and that's really important."

"Eenh. I'd buy 'most people'."

"The intellectually disabled are usually true neutral. So're dead babies. I guess you can argue orcs or Chelish or whatever don't stand a fair chance."

"I don't know what a Chelish is. But people vary individually kind of a lot in what's accessible to them and I don't think everyone who can't realistically get themselves out of some section of grid is guaranteed to like where that sorts them."