She glances at the shoe covers. "That makes more sense, then."

"I didn't know if you would mind if I tracked - the thing that isn't exactly dirt - around your city. So I put them on."

"That is very thoughtful of you. But we don't mind."

"If clean Amentans ever come here they will mind."

"Well, it sounds like they kill people when they get mad so I'm not sure we'll invite them to visit."

"I don't think they'd kill Elves. Just reds."

"- okay but that is not good enough to invite them to visit."

"We don't have a way to stop them if they find out about the portal."

"They will come even if we tell them not to?"

"I think so."

" - I think maybe you should really talk to Círdan."

"Why?"

"People coming who we don't want and who want to kill people sounds like a problem that is hard for us to solve, and if something is hard for us to solve we can ask the government, that's what governments are for."

"I guess..."

"We don't have to, it just seems like a thing where later if people came who weren't supposed to and killed somebody someone would say 'why didn't you tell Círdan.'"

"I guess if Círdan wants to talk to me..."

"I haven't asked but probably. You are from another planet and have a problem."

"Okay. I could also go get someone more important. I'm not important, I just found it first and no one thought someone else should go instead anyway."

"Do you want to do that?"

"I don't know what would make sense here."

"It makes sense to go to Círdan if you have a problem and it's kind of a big problem that you can't just fix or get your friends to help you fix. I don't think there are rules otherwise about who should do it."

"I can go."

"Okay! Now? Or do you want to do more things first?"

"Now is fine."

"Okay. We want to go that way." She points.