"I guess we didn't make our laws for Amentans."

"I guess not."

"You can vote later but I know that doesn't make it much better."

"...I mean, it's new and exciting, but there's only one of me."

"Yeah. Two later."

"Yeah." Sigh.

Sigh. "Also, we can make a deal about the baby. We can set something up to make it legally complicated to hurt them even if you wanted to. I'll want to think about it a lot and I'll want you to understand Har better and I'll want to understand you better, but..."

"I'm not really worried I'll hurt my baby," she sighs. "It's just - it's gross that I could and nothing would stop me, that other people might be hurting theirs and nothing stops them."

"Of things that Amentans think are gross for reasons I can't figure out, it's really not my favorite."

"It's weird you can't figure it out."

"I think I understand why you don’t like it at all. I think Amentans are like my kind of person. We feel other people’s feelings sometimes. Gross, I don’t understand. Scary or sad, I understand."

"Do you just never think anything is gross or do you mean you only think, like, physically gross things are gross and don't do... grossness metaphors."

"I think things that happen in the bathroom are gross sometimes. I think wizards of space are maybe gross? There’s food I could eat if I liked it but I don’t like it because I feel like it’s gross. I feel sad about slaves sometimes but I don’t feel like I want to - what's the word for un-eating?"

"Throwing up. ...why are wizards of space gross?"

"...I’m not going to let people hurt you. I really, really want you to stay alive and safe. But it’s because their magic isn’t very good."

"Do... they all have to be slaves about it, or..."

"No."

"So you don't like them but they can just like, live their lives anyway and not care what you think, right?"

"Yes." If they’re allowed to grow up, of course, but maybe they’ve spent enough time talking about that for now.

"That's good then."

"You have a very interesting perspective."

"Thank you."

"So, I was reading the laws. We were halfway done with the laws you can be a slave from breaking."

"Go on?"

"Sometimes people who aren’t slaves have places. Don’t go there if they don’t want you to. Hmmm... and if there’s a place, and the person who owns it does want people to go there, and people want to go there, don’t keep them out. And if they go there and don’t want to leave, and the owner doesn’t want them to leave, don’t take them out of that place.

"If someone who works for the government does want to ask you questions about a crime, don’t lie. It’s okay if you don’t answer but don’t lie.

"Sometimes cops can break some of these. If you have questions there are more things you can read. That’s all the big laws. There are small laws about lying when you sell things and stuff but they aren’t convict slave labor laws."