"In four thousand years. - I am not really helping the case that I'd be qualified to notice if Cam were a sociopath."

"Not really."

"We have people on staff who are not similarly handicapped."

He flaps outside.

"They done already?"

"Not even close, but in 1802 electricity was cutting-edge and I've been focused on stuff useful for demoning and I don't have the background to keep up."

"He won't repeat himself."

"Yeah, I know, I planted an audio recorder and I'll ask Cam for suggestions on a physics curriculum and then study until I'm caught up. He has to sleep."

"Not very often."

"Anyway I just came out to feed the dragons -" squint - "which is done, what are you talking about -"

"Elves being naive."

"Timothy's been recording his interviews for a list to compete with Davidson's. After he sends them home he guesses whether they're trouble and eighty-two percent of the ones he thinks are trouble have had incidents or complaints but more satisfyingly none of the ones he thinks are okay had any - that's not true one guy had a complaint but we looked into it and he'd accidentally made something at a temperature too high to be safe for his summoner, when he was six days old -

- anyway you should watch the recordings and make your guesses and then we'll have data on whether being born human in the 1700s makes you better at noticing malicious people than being an Elf prince who is some ridiculous number of years old. Hi," he says to Niari, "I don't think I know you."

"Niari's the interstellar coordinator for the GCP."

"I'm honored," he says with apparent sincerity. Flap flap. "Milliways is surreal, isn't it?"

"Yes. Yes it is."

"Do you know enough physics to get me to lightleapers -"

"I was always a terrible disappointment to my father in that respect, as far as I'm concerned they might as well be magic. They work by ...folding space?"

"Being really really old is super wasted on Elves. No matter how long it would've taken you to learn -"

"Other people invented electricity but I made sure every home in Valinor had it, other people invented the internet but I made sure every square meter of ground on Valinor had it -"

"Yeah, yeah, okay. What does the interstellar coordinator do, listen to him say outrageous things and then fish up the magic to prove them?"

"Charitably, I make sure I know what's going on in the multiverse and how it relates to our charter so we aren't caught off guard by weird magic or politics. Uncharitably I am here to make sure Rochelle doesn't have to talk to Maitimo."

"Someone should declare Tireh interstellar coordinator of Beach and then you can meet her, she's cool, she's four years old, shorefolk are like the exact opposite of Elves."

"Tireh?"

"Is she here?" Mingling is Tireh here invite her outside -

Tireh Minor invites you outside.