"Of course. How long do you expect it to take her to grow up?"

Like thirteen or fourteen years?

"Second slowest in the empire, assuming similar year length. Well, welcome. If you see any sign of anyone else from your world, I'm sure we would all be in your debt if you'd let someone know as soon as possible."

What, just anyone?

"Ideally a representative of the imperial government or any state government. But in a pinch you can go anywhere not hidden by any illusions and say, out loud, in Hari, 'I need to report a crime' and the police will scry whatever you say next."

Is... existing and being from my world... a crime?

"No, but it's what they're already listening for. We tried to change the phrase to 'I need to alert the police' for exactly this reason years ago but it went poorly."

?

"Because the public service announcements failed to reach a lot of the most isolated people, because people who need police attention are especially likely to be in a bad state of mind to stop and remember the change, because a rumor started that the response time was worse for the new phrase and people responded by sticking to the old one and after years of that they genuinely did start scrying it less frequently and that eventually made the rumor true. Is that not the sort of thing that would happen where you're from?"

People don't usually try to get attention from the higher-ups there.

"No? What happens if you have a murder or something?"

Like, one orc murdering another orc? I don't think that happens that much unless his lordship's ordering them to because he's bored.

Her guide thinks that sounds horrifying and uncivilized.

"What do you do to avoid that sort of thing?" asks the cat.

...to avoid his lordship? We, uh, can't.

"No, how do you keep your murder rate down without the help of your government?"

I... don't know? It never really occurred to me as a problem we were avoiding. People beat me up all the time but they didn't try to make me actually die of it.

"...I think maybe I would like you to explain to me how your society works."

...there's a lot of orcs and also me and everybody in Angband has to do whatever Melkor says but mostly he delegates to the Maiar and the only one who does a lot with that is his lordship except if they're commanding campaigns outside against the Elves or something.

"How do Melkor and the Maiar enforce obedience?"

Oh, uh, everybody has to swear an oath, soon as they can talk.

"...What?"

They have to swear to be orcs and seek orc greatness and serve Melkor and stuff? But the baby hasn't, she's too little, and I'm not an orc.

"Why does this have observable results?"

...'cause of being an oath.

"Can you explain this concept?"