"It's beautiful - as its primary feature - Elves love and need beautiful things. It's peaceful and joyful and full of music and learning."

"Sounds amazing."

"I love it."

"I can see why!"

"Maybe some humans can come visit once we have travel figured out."

"That'd be cool."

"And it turns out that humans are not the only species that can do magic."

"Oh, congratulations!"

"Thank you! It's rather thrilling."

"I can imagine, magic's great."

"I'm enjoying it."

"Doesn't hurt too much?"

"It varies. If it gets very bad I can cheat with the bodily control feature."

"Oh, nice. Can you do that with stuff above the neck, or just below it?"

"It's much more complicated around the brain, so I usually wouldn't, but it's not impossible in principle."

"Most stuff is not above the neck so it doesn't come up most of the time but it's not exactly uncommon. If probably not worth doing preemptively."

Nod.

"So more useful for Sympathy or Effort than Conquest, I'm sure. What have you figured out about your talents and resistances?"

"I think I would have found Conquest very appealing as a small child but have cultivated different habits since then. I have had decent success with Sympathy and expect comparable efficacy with Effort. If there is such a thing as being generically resistant I might be that, although most so to Sympathy."

"Ooh, that sounds convenient."

"The generic resistance?"

"Mhm."

"I make a habit of exactly the sort of thing that counteracts mental effects anyway."

"Really? Why?"

"I prefer to have well-documented, well-organized thoughts that are observably trending how I prefer."