"I'm not either. I could maybe fake it but I wouldn't be a good green."

Fervent nod. "And it would hurt knowing that I was - being average at something I'm not instead of great at something I am."

"I don't think I care about being better at a thing than other people who do the thing but I care about - really helping."

"I really like helping people but mostly - day-to-day, it's not that I feel sad if I look back over the last Year and didn't Really Help. Maybe if I only had so much time, or if my country had lots of problems like right now yours does."

"I don't think I have to do it yet I think I have to get ready to. I guess it is really helping to be explaining Amenta things to you."

"It is definitely helping. We don't have reliable sources about Amenta things, it's hard to tell the difference between things where they actually have to be awful and things where they are just lying. I can kind of tell whether they believe it but that doesn't even mean they're right."

"Yeah."

Elves get a planet that they want to be for reds. They are a little concerned reds might die en route to their planet. How can this be avoided.

Uh, if the Elves want to shepherd the reds directly then that's okay as long as they don't touch them or their stuff? Also, it's very important that their jobs all be replaced before they move.

Oh the reds thought it was very important they have somewhere to go before they get replaced.

And they do! They have this planet the Elves set aside for them! It would just be bad if they all disappeared and no one had magic fountains or immortality or whatever yet because no one else will do their unclean jobs.

Maybe the Valar can fountain up and magic-garbage and immortality-up a district at a time, and then those reds can be relocated, and if this goes well without any reds dying somehow they can do the next one, and so on.

Occasionally reds die and it's not anyone's fault, it would be a shame if the other reds did not get to go to their planet because one of them got into a police altercation or something.

That sounds like someone's fault.

Well, yes, it's the red's fault, they're often drunk or something.

And this can't be resolved without killing them?

It often can just not always.

Elves will review any instances of red deaths and if there was no way to handle the situation without loss of life then those won't impede the handing out of magic things.

Also even if it is the cop's fault somehow which seems unlikely it's unfair to hold everyone responsible for that.

Ah, see, Elves would have thought that a while ago but then the Empire explained to them how sometimes you have to murder tons of innocent people for game theory reasons. And Elves are not totally convinced of that when it comes to murdering people but they're pretty convinced when it comes to not giving them magic things.

They also explained that they only do that to blues, who acted as a government and not as individuals! Cops are often individuals. Plus it is a complication that it's over child allotments and directly interacts with population, which this other thing is not.

Maitimo reports on this argument to Avalor.

She thinks they have a point. Not about the murdering her family thing but about not making the red planet contingent on no cops doing things they aren't supposed to. "You've noticed we have criminals, right?"

" - yes but you'd have more of them if they weren't punished, right? And they want us to not punish murders. That'll make there be more murders, that's how Amentans work."

"They didn't say you couldn't punish the cops, did they? They just want reds to go to their planet anyway."