"Oh, that explains why you ain't black."

"Yes, I'm a Noldo. There are some darker than me but not that dark."

"You look like a white boy to me. Ain't never heard of Valley Nor."

"I think I'm in another world. Endorë is dark and here is not dark just lit funny, and also I think you all are not Elves."

"No shit we're not Elves."

"Where I'm from everyone is Elves."

Bullshit. "Uh-huh."

"If you're not Elves do you not have osanwë."

"I don't speak Kenya, elf boy."

Can you people do this.

"- what the fuck? If you're a cape you don't work a cash register, you rob a bank or work for the Protectorate or some shit."

"The people who lock people up? No. In Valinor everybody can do that - is that why you all leave your thoughts public, nobody can read them anyway -"

She has no idea what he's talking about. "Shit, I was saying how to get to the Stop and Shop and you're some kinda Thinker cape -"

"I am not going anywhere near the locking people up thing I don't want to die I don't even know how to get to Mandos from here! The cash register sounds great!"

"So don't rob a bank, shit, I don't care, but you don't hafta work minimum wage if you got powers."

"I wasn't going to work because I thought I had to. I want to learn stuff and working is how you learn stuff."

"Cash register jobs're shit for advancement, elf boy."

"I think you think the things I don't know are things people here mostly don't know but really the things I want to know are mostly things people here already know."

"I guess you could have a shit job as your secret identity," she says dubiously.

"See, like, secret identity, that's a thing I did not know. What does it mean."

"You wear a mask when you do cape shit and then the rest of the time you pretend you're not a cape."

"Why?"

"So nobody who's mad at your cape identity goes and kills your family."

"That happens?"

"No 'cause capes've got secret identities, see?"