"Your whole family had that responsibility? How would you decide who were the sinners and who were the innocent? Were you given the power to see souls, or other arcane powers of sight? And what were you expected to do about it, once you made the decision?"

Clearly Leo had an onerous life!

"I'm an Elf, but we probably have different definitions in our world. There are Elves and Men, Dwarves and Hobbits, and even some strange sentient trees called Ents. We all consider ourselves human, with sentience and a natural or benign origin being the markers of humanity. There are other beings in our world, powerful beings of pure spirit who can take material form. We Elves generally cannot change our forms, though we have a few of the other capabilities of those non-material beings."

"You went to France after you died?" A little bit of a smile. He's heard of mortals going to heaven or hell after they die, never to France!

But then he listens to the explanation, which is not funny at all. "Your world was plagued with monsters? How did they get there? Were they invaders or native to your world? What is this thing about your needing music to eat? -- well, you did seem to indicate that you are not mortal yourself. What sort of being are you? Seth and Margo are mortals, then? I am glad that you had their company and their friendship. It seems a difficult sort of world to survive without family or friends."