"Huh. Glad I'm not an orc."

"Same."

She laughs. "I think most non-orcs are."

"So the whole culture is militaristic?"

"Fairly. It's more - very rigid hierarchies, and the easiest way to maintain rigid hierarchies is violence."

"Sounds familiar."

"Humans work much the same way, I've noticed, even if they like to pretend they don't."

"Violence is always easy, and easy is always preferable."

"The hard path is more entertaining or rewarding sometimes, I've found, but a baffling number of people disagree with me."

"It's the sometimes that gets you, in the expected return estimations."

"Most people don't put in the effort to learning to tell the difference between a worthwhile path and an easy path, though."

"Most people aren't very clever."

"Sadly the case."

More walking.

"Where are you two from, by the way?"

"Amestris."

"Haven't heard of it."

"It's- very far away."

"Huh. I like traveling; perhaps I'll see it, one day."

"Maybe." After they figure out how to get back.

She smiles, a bit. "Sadly, my own homeland's no place for tourists."

"We're not really here for sightseeing."

"What are you here for, then?"

"Mostly we're here by accident."

"Oh?"