"It's not any harder or easier to kill them but sometimes even bad people have hangups about who they'll be bad to. Won't hurt children, or women, or dogs, or nuns, or something."

"I wonder why she hurts any people at all."

"Couldn't tell you."

"Should've asked." Sigh. "How's training the clinic volunteers going?"

"We are getting inured to the Elves asking why they have to have locks and whether their publicly accessible bathroom will actually need to be cleaned that often."

He valiantly resists the urge to ask why they have to have locks. His cheeks puff up like a chipmunk with all the not asking he is doing.

"You need locks because otherwise people will steal stuff and you need to clean public bathrooms because people don't treat places they don't have to take care of nicely."

He nods solemnly. "Do you think Elves're nicer than humans and daeva or do you think it's just that we have different circumstances?"

"Elves are... lower-variance. You can grab a hundred random Elves and they'll probably all be peaceful and responsible, at least when it matters. If you grab a hundred random humans thirty of them will make terrible neighbors and ninety of them will go pretty much wherever their incentives and the path of least resistance lead them and a couple of them will be sociopaths and a couple of them will have solemnly devoted their lives to something stupid that they think is for the greater good and maybe, if you got the right hundred humans, you'll get one who's good all over, but even if it wasn't the right hundred humans they'll mostly have some virtues and those are as solid as Elf virtues."

Nodnod. "It seems like it'd be much much harder to be a good prince of humans. I guess Timothy isn't a prince."

"He is not."

"And Midnight rules humans but he was mostly trying to win the war and not trying to love everybody and be worthy of their respect and do right by all of them."

"Pretty different projects."

"Both of them are kind of impossible, I guess."

"Well, there are Sanity's Valar around now, winning the war might be easy with them."

"Are they gonna do Kib's Arda or Midnight's first?"

"Midnight's is different in some ways so they'll probably start with Kib's."

He scampers off to go play.

"I'm trying to think how much of this procedure Hazel can use. Maybe most of it, if the Statute was still in place..."

"And if nobody investigated the dots for Statute violations."

"If everyone involved was a Muggle there wouldn't be any statute violations."

"Weren't you saying a while ago that if they produce magic they might be construed as violations even if it's not wizard magic?"

"Oh, yeah, if we're anywhere near it. And daeva might get ruled non-Muggles." Sigh. "You know where we should really do next is spontaneous-babies world."

"Oh?"

"Servantmaking would be super useful for us and the summoning rollout will be indescribably easier when everyone has stuff to trade daeva."