"Yeah, I'll own up to having still not followed all of that," Mal said. "But the core part of bigotry came through. Given I'm half Dark fairy Dragon" she said it in such a way to make it un clear if she was half dark fairy and half dragon or half dark-fairy-dragon. Neither was quite true, but she had a life time of not talking about her dad under her belt, and that wasn't about to stop now. "And Ben here is human, with maybe a little beast mixed in," she teased, "we're hardly going to look down on anyone else because of the species they were born to. But that's not always been the case with most people on this world."

"We've been working to change that," Ben said, firmly, but kindly. "No one should have to suffer for how they were born, or who their parents were. I think that all people should have a chance to chose who they are, and stand for that. And we're trying to make that a reality."

"Without bing too reckless," Mal asked. "Some people, for better or worse do take after their parents," she said, wrinkling her nose. "For example, if she shows up here, be carefully of Mad Maddy."

Look, they had to forgive Uma for laughing while Mal nearly drowned when they were kids, but she did not have to forgive Maddy's far more recent betrayal.

Why did all her exfriends try to drown her? Ugh, maybe the others were right and she should learn to swim...