"Yeah. And they'd notice eventually, and then we'd get kicked out and everybody'd know we were kicked out of the army for not doing our jobs, it'd be a thing."

"Gotcha."

"But I like my job, anyway, it's a nice job."

"I'm glad. Do you get paid?"

"Yeah, but I don't pick mine up very often. Not a lot of call for it out here."

"What's the local currency?"

"Stars. They look like - well, you'll probably see some in the capital, little sparkly silver things."

"Does the other kingdom use those too?"

"No, they use discs. And in the borderlands they'll take either."

"The borderlands must be interesting."

"They are that, though I don't know what you're imagining."

"I'm only vaguely imagining it, really."

"Lots of interesting folk there. Some of 'em are friendly, some very not."

Nod.

"Met a dryad there once. They're so tall! Taller'n you, even! Not as tall as Button when she stands up, but still!"

"How much taller than me?"

"Oh, like you with another quarter-you on top, maybe."

"Humans get that tall but not often."

"Huh. I think most fey kinds don't vary that much."

"There's a lot of humans, so lots of room to be different."

"Really? How many's a lot?"

"More than six billion."

"...that's more people than there are in the world. By a lot."

"I was getting that impression."

"Yeah. I wouldn't even hardly - how do you all fit? Your world must be so big!"