When your neighbors kill you when you were just trying to have a polite discussion about mutual problems, it's probably not a good sign. They didn't go and hunt down her various homes to outright destroy her, though. At worst it's a temporary inconvenience, and that's what destroying her form was aimed at.
She covers herself in stone and reaches out to feel the surrounding tiles as she stands, almost reflexively. She does not feel any tiles.
I respawned. But... Where the hell am I?
"Then with apologies, I will make a map for you first. Working with ice is tricky and time-consuming, it would be better to send you to some new place rather than attempt to build here. I expect to be back in a few hours." She starts hovering, ready to leave unless they have final comments.
And off she flies. High, higher, higher. Until she can see the whole of the continent, or near enough. No air up here. It thins out a lot faster than it would on her world.
....The world appears flat at least. Perhaps it's not as strange as she thought. She makes a quick and crude map of the continent marked with different sorts of stone. Though it's a bit too dim to make a really good map. On the way back, she delivers to Melkor a giant boulder dropped from a great height onto his fort. She thinks he'll get the intended message.
And then she's back. She presents the map, marks the location of where the other host landed and Melkor's fortress and other visible settlements and explains how the different stones correspond to what sort of vegetation or lack thereof she could see through a telescope from high above. They would know more about climate trends than her.
"I need to discuss this with others. How soon do you desire an answer?"
"I'll leave a copy here and show it to the other host, then perhaps explore some more, I'll check back every day or so take as long as you need. It's gonna be your new home not mine after all."
"Though I would appreciate it if you can find someone to properly teach me your language, at some point, and explain various things I am confused by. Like, what exactly this talking-without-talking is, and how I can stop doing it if I ever want to."
"We would be happy to have someone do both of those things, whenever is convenient for you."
"Not at all."
He is really really curious what had happened on the other shore, but this is not obviously a disaster and he can't hear Maitimo across an ocean so they will have to hope.
She's doing a lot of flying today. She flies to where the boats landed and follows that host's trail inland.
Oh bloody hell. She starts working on a light source, kneading rock over and over 'till it glows white.
What does the battle look like? Scattered bands over a large distance? Strict regiments lined up? Archers? Magic?
The Elves are clustered into some kind of ragged formation, mostly in a valley, moving very slowly forward as a host. They have archers. The orcs are streaming in from all directions. They also have archers.
She doesn't actually have all that much strength left. Not enough to just bodily lift the entire Elven host in one go. Dying takes a lot out of you.
What is the most efficient use of her power... She makes herself look as imposing as possible. Impractically bulky rock-armor, glowing from yet more kneading and throwing globs of white-hot stone to start reasonably small fires that she can easily put out later near the highest concentrations of incoming Orcs.
And she tries to find someone in charge who hopefully knows nonzero tactics, to communicate how she has sided against Melkor and wants to help, preferably by driving the Orcs off instead of killing them but the latter will do if needs must.
They have definitely noticed her. Hello. Learned the things that would permit you to decide how to involve yourself?
Yes. Melkor is evil and must be driven off or destroyed. I do not know the tactics of this land, how best should I help?
She sends a summary of her current capabilities - raising a (very) crude fortress right under their feet would take about ten minutes, taller barricades against archers specifically in slightly less time than that, crushing Orcs or physically scattering them is doable, as is continuing to sow chaos with small fires but those could quickly get out of control-
We were trying to fight our way to the lake and build a fortress there where we can shelter and rest while the fighting continues. Can you clear the path to there, and raise something there for us when we reach it? We can maintain this indefinitely, then.
Yes. However, I will need to leave after an hour or two and rest between now and when you're likely to arrive there.
I will make one easily enough. I doubt any Orc can tunnel through fifty meters of rock to get to me.
And she puts out the slightly less small fires with globs of turned-up dirt before heading off in the host of elves' direction of travel, scattering the Orcs in that direction as best she can with relatively gentle exertion of earth-power.
She does this for about an hour, then flies off and rests.
Then returns and does the same thing some more.
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