"I guess we'll find out."

"Guess so!"

"And meanwhile you can learn things."

"Learning things is great."

"It would be really inconvenient otherwise."

"Yes, if it were awful people would try to avoid it."

"And you need it more than most people."

"I think I would be fine if I weren't trying to live among people. I suppose even then I'd learn things incidentally."

"That's true," she admits. "I guess I hadn't thought of that. Being around people just seems so obvious."

"I like it!" he says. "I don't think I would have known to miss it if I weren't though."

"I'm glad. Of both those things."

"Does it matter how it would have been if I were by myself?"

"It might, if other elementals are like that and are by themselves."

"I don't know how alike elementals are."

"I don't either. But you might be."

"We might," he nods.

"I guess we'll find out."

"How?"

"Meet elementals who've been around for a while without meeting people?"

"Oh. Are we going to do that?"

"Well, someone will."

"Will they tell us about it?"

"I'm sure the Queen will have someone ask them about it, and then we can find out from whatever she has written up about it."

Nod.

"What do you want to do next?"