Gotcha. Okay so the last time Illia saw her she was over there and coming from that direction does that imply things about where she stays...

It doesn't take too long to find her. "Illia," she says warmly but tiredly.

"Hi! I made my sister build me a city in Nevrast. I'm going to be a queen. I should show you where it is on a map so you know where to send people escaping arranged marriages."

"Congratulations. They're letting you do it?"

"What, be a queen or harbor escapees of arranged marriages? Because to be honest the former was Fingon's idea in the first place."

"That surprises me."

"I'm not surprised."

"Under the High King?"

"What would be the point of that?"

This wins her a stunning smile. "Under their protection, then?"

"Nah, our defense policy consists of 'weapons technology from my world, as many mages as we can teach, and Odette'."

"Congratulations."

"I don't even know that I'm a particularly exceptional person for pulling this off, my sister is basically just a huge circumstantial advantage."

"Yeah. Seriously. But still. How are you going to run it?"

"The example of the ruler of the city I was born in, advice from an amazingly competent woman Odette rescued from Dorthonion right before everything went to hell there, as many good ideas as I've been able to extract from observing the Elves here, paying attention to what I'm doing wrong and fixing it instead of insisting there's no problem, and crossed fingers."

"Lovely. Who's living there?"

"So far, the refugees from Dorthonion. Odette's been making overtures elsewhere but hasn't gotten firm answers back yet."

'I think some of the Halethrim, my family, will be interested if it seems to be working well."

"You're the Halethrim and your name is Hareth?"

"Elven naming custom, they ask everyone to maintain continuity of sound clusters so they don't have to learn new names every few decades."

...

"It's a lot of effort for them, you know."

"Doing a thing once every few decades is a lot of effort."

"Well, that's being charitable to them; the less kind explanation is that it's a power thing."

"Ooookay then I don't really know how to respond to that. Um."