Shiver. "If they can't hurt anyone anymore then we'll be fine."

(He does not visibly react at all, but he notes the nodding people very carefully.)

"...I appreciate your perspective and I'm still gonna take an hour and find somebody who seems like they had an actual reason beyond sadism so they don't fly around trying to traumatize children by yelling uncomfortable song lyrics or whatever such options remain to them."

"Are there demons who want to do that very badly? I could pretend to be sad about people yelling things!"

"That seems like a poor use of your time, but you know what you'd be great for, if we wind up launching a program where demons get to adopt kids the way the Martian-power-grid fairies do, you could be really helpful in interviewing them."

"Okay! I like talking to people!"

"I know you do."

"And you'd be able to hang out in your world, if you want, once everything's synced."

"That would be good. ...I guess if people are bad you can't just explain to them that they shouldn't be?"

"Has a very poor track record with anyone who's older than, like, Miranda."

"That makes me sad."

"Works okay with Elves who've done something bad but rapists and murderers are - outside what we've encountered."

"If you tell a human teenager or adult that they have done something wrong then a likely outcome is they think you're being condescending, and can either be treated with contempt because you lack the power to follow through on your opinion in a way that matters to them or should be offered pretend contrition and subsequent increased subterfuge because you do."

"Do humans never change their minds about what's right?"

"They do, just, not because random people come up to them and say so."

"So you just have to make friends first?"

"That actually can work and you would be very good at it but it doesn't scale well."

"I want to try it anyway."

"I don't - know how you would design a binding to stop rapists but - it will not even occur to people as a thing to be worried about -"

"Bindings can handle physical coercion but cannot without enforcing celibacy cover purely verbal persuasion of any sort so I will try to find someone who is unlikely to go around claiming to have a medical condition with a weird treatment protocol or what have you."

"Thank you."

"...a medical condition."

"Or if Elves get blackout drunk someone might take advantage, or they might try to talk a kid into it -"

"As far as I know there are not any such medical conditions and if there were they would not trouble daeva but I'm not going to bind somebody indefinitely and not allow them to lie, and if they have no compunctions about falsehood and are solely setting out to get someone to sleep with them... I suspect that humans may just have higher sex drives than Elves, incidentally, not that it excuses anything."