"I guess we can go talk to him."

"All at once, or - "

"I can also talk to him alone? If it'd be less - I dunno, dog pile-y. But Hagan probably has better guesses about how he is as a person."

" - I mean, my guess would be 'has no particular moral opinions except that people should be left alone, most especially if they're studying linguistics or magic or astronomy', and yet there he is having some moral opinions, which leaves me a bit confused."

"I see. Well - I can talk to him and if it doesn't stick at all then maybe someone else can raise concerns?"

"Sounds good. Or if it doesn't stick you could try Starfarer, who might get him a bit better."

"Well, Starfarer might have some of the same - sensibilities. But I can try."

And she heads over to Fëanáro, attempting to swallow her fear of talking to powerful alien strangers.

He is reading a book in Latin.

" - hi. Can I talk to you for a couple minutes about, uh, Imrainai?"

"Of course!"

"Okay. She's, uh - she seems to be under the impression that if she contacts the father and asks him if he wants to help her raise the baby, she'll have to marry him, and she's - willing to do this because she thinks that you're better at knowing what's right than she is, but - I think she's pretty scared of it."

" - she definitely should not marry someone who she doesn't want to be married to."

"This is what I told her. I - think she either has a different understanding of marriage than I do or is unclear on what is being asked."

"I can talk to her."

"Okay. Just be - she's trying really really hard to do what people think is responsible, you know?"

"She's doing really wonderfully!"

" - yeah, I think so too, I just - I don't want her to focus so much on that that she doesn't learn to think about what she wants."

- nod. "You'd think having the power to make people do what you want would make you think about what you want but I don't know that it does."

"I'd kind of expect it to do the opposite? Because - if you seem like a person who wants a lot of things then you might make people nervous that you'll use your powers in ways you shouldn't."

"Huh."

" - maybe that's just me. But she's kind of me. So."

"I have a lot of power and I mostly use it to do stuff I wanna do. I guess I have less than her but I was in charge of a planet."

" - see, that seems like the kind of thing that would make a lot of people nervous? But maybe that's also just me."

"I don't think it made people nervous until her? It did make her nervous but I think that was mostly the worrying the Alteri would come conquer the planet."

"Well - I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong, you know? Whatever you're doing might be fine for your people. Just - she's probably used to people with power pushing other people around a lot, you know? What with the slavery."