"How did someone come up with the idea it might happen."

"...just kinda obvious." Valley Nor must be a helluva place. Elf boy's gonna run home to daddy inside of like a day.

"I told you, I don't know how to get home."

"So you go tell missing persons."

"Only if I'm really really sure they won't imprison me!"

"You done anything illegal? Or look like you did?"

"I don't know what's illegal or what would make me look like I did!"

"Jesus, boy, I don't know what you want me to tell ya."

"It's not you. I'll do the cash register job and learn things - you have writing how are you so terrible -"

"Excuse me?"

"Everybody can read!!!!! Or enough people for making signs to make sense! But you have starving people and fucking people for money and capes and locking people up and killing peoples families!!! This is the most terrible place I can imagine and you can all read!"

"So we went to kindergarten and ain't illiterate savage rainforest people, so?"

"No one in Valinor can read but at least they don't do any of the other things either."

"What do they do?" she wonders, vaguely imagining savage rainforest people eating raw vague rainforest meat.

"No, see, it's like -" Tirion, glittering in the light of the Mingling -

"- that's real pretty."

"Yeah. And if you're hurt or sick or can't work people bring you food and no one has to be afraid people will kill their families unless my horrible stepmother counts."

"So go home."

"That doesn't actually solve any of the problems with this place - it's not like people starving is bad because I hear about it -"

"You wanna run around solving problems you do the superhero gig."

" - how many people live here."

"In Baltimore? Shit, I dunno, maybe a million? Maybe not that many."

"And are there other places like Baltimore. With the starving people and the murdering families."

"There's a whole lotta world."

"So that's too many people for me to fix by personally running around giving them food or stopping them from murdering peoples' families, there's got to be something wrong with you and I should be figuring out what it is."