"Huh. We have not heard of anywhere else having Pokémon."

"That's... wow, what else do you not have... that sounds really boring."

"Pokémon make life more exciting?"

"I never tried not having them around but if they were gone so would pretty much all things, so."

"The moving trains and airplanes?"

"I guess you could still have those but I think it would be hard to get electricity for the trains without Pokémon."

"Most places do electricity without Pokémon, yeah."

"Pokémon generate electricity?"

"Some of them do. Zag can't right now but he could later maybe."

"Can you recommend a book about all the types of Pokémon and what they do?"

"All of them? The Encyclopedia of Pokémon. There's hundreds."

"I will make the Elves read it."

"Why?"

"They are numerous, can do lots of things at once, spend a lot of their time singing and can read while singing, and will benefit from broader cultural exposure."

"The Encyclopedia of Pokémon is not very cultural. It's an encyclopedia."

"Can you recommend cultural books too? - though you would be surprised at some of the inferential gaps between humans and Elves, an encyclopedia would turn up lots of them."

"Why, what's Elf culture like?"

" - the relevant ones here are mostly Sanity's Elves. They are all immortal and their world has no material scarcity and there are gods who fix any - rough edges - so pretty much no one, anywhere, is in a state of need or misery. They also don't have a crime rate and were shocked at the idea of people lying to investigators and have hilarious shampoo commercials. They're sharp, and they'll work very hard when they need to, but they are continually surprised at what people elsewhere are like."

"Shampoo commercials?"

"Elves have a taboo on loose hair."

"Why?"

"They find it very distracting."

"Why?"

"They've said it's sort of like why humans wear clothes." 

(Cam is again a shirtless demon.)

"Do they go around naked?"