Unless getting bigger is actually in some respect necessary I think it would be better not to wait that long.

I think getting good at things usually takes some time. Hopefully we figure out how to send you home before that.

I think that maybe instead of sending me home we should get my parents.

I mean, then they might be stuck here too? And you don't really seem to like it here.

I am unhappy in some ways but I think it would be cowardly to go back away to where there is enough food for everyone because I do not like it here where there is not.

I think it would be better. That way you could grow up strong and healthy and not scared and be able to help more people when you're done growing.

That will take a very long time.

I think most important things do.

I'm not really sure that's okay. In Valinor it's fine but here - 

- my parents would be able to fix it, see, I'm pretty sure.

Fix what, exactly?

Well I don't quite understand all of the problems but it sounds like one of them is that you need money to do any things and some people bought all the land and so no one can just take the food they need and they all have to work horrible jobs instead. So if someone bought all of the land back and replanted all the best plants on it, the ones that don't take any work to grow and produce lots of tasty filling seeds and nuts and fruits and things, then probably that would solve it. So if I were my parents I'd try that but they might think of something better.

I think there aren't any plants like that that feed people at the modern world's population density. 

- anyway, the world's problems are really complicated, I think maybe no one person can solve all of them.

Well if they couldn't, they'd get the Valar.

I dunno what that is.

God sent the Valar into the world to realize his vision in it, and they made it and shaped it, and they're very powerful, and they could definitely fix all this. Lots of people don't really like being a place they have directly fixed because nothing you do there matters very much, and so people like to go a bit farther away where we command our own destinies and things. But they can fix anything. 

Oh. Yeah, I guess that could probably do it.

(She's actually unclear on whether a bunch of - easily accessible angels? - could fix all of the world's problems, given the stuff Wolfram & Hart has on its side, but it does seem like the correct sort of power to appeal to.)

I just - I don't even know how to send you back, and calling up the Valar or whoever sounds even less likely to be feasible.

Yes, that's why I was thinking what to do if I just have to stay here myself. But if we can get them we should.

I'll work on it.

Oh, you know what I could do? If you have thin fabric that lets light through, I could embroider a lot of my favorite flowers on it and then I could make a little tent with sticks and thin fabric and then I could hide in my tent and then I think I would be fine. 

Or if you have a loom and wool I could make the fabric but that will take longer. 

If you don't have wool it comes from sheep.

This poor adorable incredibly earnest child.

I think I can get fabric.

That would be great! I can unravel my sleeve to get the thread for the flowers, I don't know how to spin thread that's fine enough for really good embroidery.

If I can get fabric I can get embroidery thread.

I could also just stay here.

The church unfortunately doesn't let people camp out here. If it did it would stop looking this pretty kind of fast.

That makes sense.

It could let people stay if they scrub all the floors and walls every day?