"It took the Enemy nearly a hundred Years of concerted effort to unravel it. I do think that says something promising about our capacity to get along after the war."

"I look forward to it."

"Are you trying to find Gondolin?"

"I haven't actually started, yet, but Lady Hareth's sons went missing during the battle and I can't find them. Or their bodies. Which means the option that lets me sleep at night is that they wandered somewhere I can't find them."

He sighs. And nods. "I see. Good luck."

"Thanks."

"And I've promised Illia whatever aid we can offer with the city, I'm not sure how best she can take us up on that given the transit time but certainly feel free to speed letters along when convenient."

"I'll do that."

"Good skill, then, and the same to Queen Illia."

"Same--oh, Illia said you wanted to see the place!"

"I'd love to but cannot be gone too long; would you be offering transport?"

"I meant do you want me to show you by osanwe, but I would in fact not mind carrying you there and back."

"I would very much like to visit Nevrast in person again the next time the directions of your travels make that sensible, then. And I shall content myself with mental images in the meantime."

"I mean I am going there from here in just a minute."

"Now works for me, then. Gondolin's for later?"

"Yeah I'm not leaving the city for as long as diplomacy would take, let alone trying to figure out how to find the place, until I've got Sympathy teleportation worked out."

"I think that's very wise. Well, I'm happy to go if we can return in a reasonable span of time."

"I'm very fast."

"Great. Tell me when."

"When."

He shakes his head. "Alright. Oooh."

"Flying's fun in a very different way from running."

"Back when I had strategically-irrelevant desires flight was one of them."

"Back when you had strategically irrelevant desires."

"I have a lot of obligations to my people and the stakes are very high. I also have a bad habit of mixing the personal and the political and at this point they seem inextricable."