"Not yet. I'll know when. I'm afraid I don't get a long time horizon on my schedule."

"We will also buy Felix, I think," he says. "Adventurers will, specifically, which means you can charge a terrible lot."

"And what will they do with it -"

"Fight monsters, mostly."

"And the monsters need fighting?"

"Osirion works pretty hard to incentivize useful adventuring but I'm sure some go after monsters who are mostly minding their own business."

"Are monsters intelligent?"

"Some of them."

"That's a little concerning."

"How do you incentivize, uh, not going into random aliens-who-share-your-planet's houses and murdering them, if it's not... 'make that illegal'."

"You require adventurers to have permits and give an account of what they're doing that's vaguely lawful and reasonable on pain of their investment and insurance contracts not paying out for unauthorized nonsense."

"They take investment?"

"Yes. For supplies and transit to the site and insurance against getting killed doing it."

"How do the investors recoup that? Do the monsters... have a lot of things and no heirs, or at least no heirs whose claim is respected?"

"They have stuff, their corpses are useful for potions and so on, and often other people want the monsters cleared out so the land's usable and will put up bounties."

"Hey, uh, should we be having guest rooms made up for everybody or are they likely to go home before they'd need that?"

"I think we'll probably go home tonight so as not to excessively strain our security?"

I'm confused about where I am but I can leave right away if people'd like.

"You're in our house. Magic is secret from most people on the planet and you should probably be secret from even more of them."

Does this planet have Quendi?

"Nope. Assuming that's what you are."

...okay. In that case I will stay if you'll have me. I can do translation.

"I don't think we are currently in need thereof but maybe Aitim can use you, I've heard him complain about machine translation."

I don't know who that is.

"It's the Amentan me. He kinda sucks but mostly because of all the killing people so maybe you won't mind."