"That wouldn't be very dignified, of course I didn't! I said something very eloquent in response."

"Aw but it was such a good squeak."

" - well, I suppose if you liked it -"

"I did."

Kiss. "Then that can be what happened."

A lightleaper full of reds reaches Endorë! Círdan assigned a medium-sized city on the coast to take them in, and it is abuzz with new construction. Cheerful silver-haired Elves meet the refugees at the landing site.

The reds clump together nervously and keep an eye on the silver-haired people in case any of them are about to shoot at them or something.

They're not even armed. They show them newly built outrageously pretty cottages and with some translation difficulty communicate that these are theirs and it is hoped that they like them and they are stocked with a few months' food for starting off with.

...okay, and where else are they allowed to be and what will they do for food after a few months?

...they are allowed to go anywhere they like, and there's a grocery store just down the road but lots of the locals live mostly off clams and lobster and would be happy to teach them to gather those and everything in their gardens is edible and someone'll be by to show them how to care for them - the people who relocated them thought they might find it reassuring to be self-sufficient - 

Most of them know absolutely nothing about gathering or gardening. They're allowed to go to that grocery store? It looks like there are other people in it.

...yep, other people live here too, though the refugees are going to outnumber them. They are definitely allowed to go to the grocery store. They have bracelets to pay for things.

The other people aren't going to mind?

Everyone is very pleased to have them!

.......why?

...the village has been shrinking because children grow up and move to the city? And now it has lots more people to buy clothes and groceries and go to school and vote in elections, and they're aliens which is terribly exciting, and the government is giving them a lot of money to be a good place for refugee resettlement, enough to refurbish the whole local fleet of fishing boats.

Did nobody tell these people who the refugees were exactly, it seems like they might want to know?

They were told that they were aliens, and here they are, aliens!

Yes they are the subset of aliens that all the other aliens hate and won't go near and think are inherently filthy, please don't shoot them they haven't touched anybody yet but that seems like the sort of thing they should know sooner than later.

Elves look at each other. They look pretty appalled. One kid starts crying.

" - well, that's not very nice of the other aliens," someone says after a minute. "No wonder you left."

"Please don't be scared," someone else says. "We're not scary - look - we're not armed, there are more of you, please don't be scared -"

...there are more of them, yes, but at home if they actually ganged up on somebody who was attacking them there would be way fewer of them real fast.

" - that explains why they called your home planet 'the terrible planet', when they were explaining how we got chosen to take refugees," someone says. "It sure sounds terrible."

"- if someone attacks you you may definitely stop them however you need to," the mayor says. "If the law doesn't cover that already I am making it a law right now." 

"I think the law already covers that," someone says. "They said we should maybe not overwhelm you with all the laws on the first day but if you're going to be worried I guess we could do that?"

They would like to know how to definitely not break any laws please. They have been informed about the hair thing, there might be more weird rules.

The laws of this fishing village are as follows: 

Don't steal things or damage the property of others. You may not attack people over theft; let them have it and activate the local public safety blessing - uh, a thing on the bracelets that have been made for them, there's a little silver button, you press it - it'll record the interaction and then the city court will straighten it out.

Don't do people violence, except in self-defense, in which case don't use more violence than necessary to protect yourself and the people around you.

If you are asked to depart someone's home or their boat, comply as quickly as it is safe to do so.

If someone is in your home or your boat and not departing, or attacks you, the local public safety blessing records the interaction, announces it is recording the interaction, and summons the nearest people certified to help in mediating disputes. You can get certified for that; there's a training course. People certified for that are allowed to restrain adults who do not comply with spoken instructions. If the refugees think it would be traumatic to go through that, they can retrain certified mediators to have a different way of handling disputes? There are some cities where they have stun weapons instead.

Don't get too intoxicated to speak clearly and walk in a straight line.

Contracts can be enforced with monetary penalties, including garnishment of monthly income payments, so long as the garnishment does not reduce monthly income beneath levels mandated by national law. Contracts cannot oblige specific performance.

"Does that all make sense?"