"And what'd you say?"

"Uh, in this job but two pay grades higher, I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to knowledge and progress as part of a dedicated team of loyal and patriotic fellow citizens -"

      One of the other greens snorts.

" - well, if your boss asks 'what do you appreciate about science', you're not going to say 'the paycheck' -"

Snort.

"And if we had FTL that would be great and I'd have ten kids."

"Mm-hm."

She asks the other greens approximately the same questions.

Learning magic would be great and is worth some risk, though obviously it would be great if the person picked for the rescue mission were someone else. They have no aspirations to supervillainy. They think Fëanáro is awfully cute.

He is awfully cute.

Snuggle.

Are they evil?

They are not obviously evil. They could be hiding something; we don't have a great way to check unless you want to ask if they're okay with mindreading, and that won't be perfect.

Should we ask?

...I think it makes sense to do it here because they don't want to go on the rescue mission, they'd rather someone else did, so I think they won't feel very pressured to let you if they're uncomfortable.

Okay. 

"Can I read your minds to check if you are evil?"

       "I was sort of assuming you were already doing that," says a green.

"That would be awful."

"I don't just read peoples' minds all the time! That wouldn't be okay."

     "....okay. Well, you can."

They are thinking about how mindreading works, he reports a minute later, and about how I am small and cute and one of them thinks you're cute too but differently? He likes greys? He's trying to avoid thinking that he likes greys because I am small but I don't see what they have to do with each other.

Well, unfortunately for him I don't like people who like greys. It's not surprising they're dwelling on that, I guess, it's spring.

You are just adding more things that don't seem to go together.

Spring is when we can have kids, so when it's springtime we spend a lot of time thinking about kids, especially ones your size or smaller, and how we might go about getting them.

...so he wants to marry you? But he just met you.

He doesn't want to marry me.

Your species is super weird. 

They're still not thinking anything supervillanous. That one is thinking about marrying you, ewww.

You don't have to listen if they're not thinking anything useful. I really doubt he's thinking about marrying me. Hooking up, more likely.

I guess I don't know exactly what specifically is involved in getting married.

Filling out forms and hiring a caterer?