"- that's, uh, also, true..."

They get some plastic and set it on the seats of the car and mutter to each other. "It wouldn't be very much of a war, you know, that's why we looked to them, they have Melian. And the orcs have several Maiar and I don't think they'd be amused either."

The reds go sit on the plastic.

The tour car drives around! These are Gabilgathol's main sites-to-see, these are Ossiriand's, these are Doriath's. People crowd the roads a bit to get a glimpse of the aliens. Someone takes out cool drinks in glass bottles and offers them to the reds.

They carefully take the drinks without touching the people offering them.

Elves and Dwarves explain local political systems and sports and foods and recent history.

The reds listen and nod along.

Do reds have any questions? They were visiting to see if they might want to live here, right?

Where would they go?

Do they want to look at a map? Here are all of the cities in all three countries.

"- on Amenta we live in red neighborhoods in each town so we don't pollute anywhere else."

"That's interesting."

"Do you have places you were thinking of setting aside for reds -"

"Our laws don't work like that. You can't make a rule that some people have to stay in a certain area, you just can't."

"We can leave the neighborhoods for work in cars or with shoe covers."

"I don't think you could even make a law that people have to wear shoe covers."

       "We could say everyone had to wear shoe covers."

"We couldn't even do that."

       "What do the shoe covers do?"

"We could have people sign a contract promising to do that? I don't see why we would but I think a contract to wear shoe covers would be enforceable."

"The shoe covers are so we don't come into contact with the street - we carry spray chalk, so if we trip we can mark where we fell and someone can clean it."

"This really sounds like a lot of effort but it's very admirable of you to want to prevent your neighbors from starting a stupid war."

"That's really not - that doesn't - I don't understand why you keep saying that."

"Uh, the reason you gave for why we might want to follow these rules is that they would be angry if we didn't."

"...yes."

"So we thought you meant that there was a risk they'd pick a fight over it, and that the reason you wanted us to follow the rules was to prevent a fight."

"- if we go home, and we've touched things on a planet they might want to go to, it's a problem. I don't think they'd start a war."

"Oh. You're worried they'd hurt you. But don't you live in the country the Noldor stole?"

"Polluting things is still illegal."