"Then let's see if we can answer them! You may all sit." He does.

She will have to stop rolling her eyes and do the not looking thing. She sits up.

"All right. I have been promised a lot of questions, and by my father, who doesn't usually think he has a lot of questions even when he does, so it must really be a lot of questions."

"Does that count as addressing me? What is someone supposed to do if they have something you need to know about but you're not paying attention to them, do they clap their hands or something?  Why do you have slavery, don't you know slavery is bad? Are the gods here going to be mean to us if we do cool stuff? Are there dragons that eat people and why do you let them do that?"

"That is a pretty good start at a lot of questions. That does count as addressing you. If there is an emergency people can rush into the room and kneel and if they do that I will assume it's important and go 'what's going on'. If someone got in the habit of rushing into the room and flinging themself at the floor and then asking for directions downtown or something else they don't really need me for, I would maybe get in the habit of ignoring them, but people know this and do not do that so it has never come up at all! What do you mean that slavery is bad? I do not think any of the gods here will be mean to you but I cannot guarantee it for sure. Abadar embraces you and wants to see you thrive and invent things that make peoples' lives better. The dragons do not answer to me and sometimes they do eat people."

"Slavery is bad because ....it hurts people, and Melkor the evil god in our world did it and it was really awful and all the people he hurt are still sad."

"Slavery as practiced in Osirion is very different from slavery as practiced by evil gods. It still hurts people but it is a different thing and should perhaps have a different name."

"Well if it still hurts people then why is it allowed."

"Almost all things are allowed, and many of them hurt people. Are all forms of hurting people not allowed where you're from?"

"- well you can hurt their feelings."

"Can you pull your children away from a fire if they are about to touch it, even if this means yanking on their arm? Can you punish someone who has committed a crime? Can you make an agreement with someone that you will test a magic spell for them even if the spell hurts?"

"- you could pull your children away from a fire but you wouldn't pull hard enough to hurt them. You can't punish someone who committed a crime by hurting them. You could say that you would test the spell but if you tried it and didn't like it they would have to stop."

"How would you punish someone who committed a crime?"

"Well it's just Melkor who did that and he is locked away so he can't keep doing it but the Valar say this doesn't hurt him but also they're stupid and evil so maybe it does."

"Only the evil god has ever done any crimes?"

"Yeah."

" - okay.

Did you have more questions? Did your companions have questions?"

Does that count as addressing us? she asks Fe-Anar.

Yes.

She relays this to Rúmil, then says to the general audience, He's not exaggerating about the Valian crime rate, it's just actually like that.

He raises his eyebrows at the telepathy but only the tiniest bit. 

"That's fascinating. How do they do it?"

Quendi seem to just temperamentally be that way. I have less detail about the ones in other parts of Arda but it seems consistent, not local.

"You can look at me. Do you think Quendi would still be like that if they were in a place like this?'

She looks up. ...I don't think it'd affect their temperament but I'm not sure what would happen besides that.

Nod.

"I am very interested in this," he says to Fëanáro, "because I would really really like my people to be like that, if there were any way to do it by circumstances or interbreeding or magic or anything else."