"Your planet is in close proximity to other ones?"

"My planet orbits a giant ball of burning hydrogen, which is also orbited by several other planets."

"By the time you can get back there, visiting the other ones shouldn't be too hard."

"Presumably, yeah. And only one's really good for terraforming as-is, most of the rest are too hot or too big or too small..."

"Magic can't fix that?"

"It probably could but I'd want to be careful, the solar system is a system and mucking with the components of a system can have knock-on effects if you don't know enough about what you're doing."

"Fair enough. Well, the dinosaurs will be here for all the Ages of Arda, take your time."

"Was that sarcasm?"

"It was not. Valinor is - rather a fixture. It's going to continue being no matter whether we live or die here. It doesn't even change on the timescales you're likely to think in."

"Okay it's just that, uh, as far as I know last time people believed there were all the Ages for something..."

"My cousins have a rather different perspective than the rest of the Eldar. Even before anything disrupted Aman's bliss they all worked like they were running out of time."

"Given that even now most of you work on a longer timescale than I do I can't really see that as a bad thing."

"It has its advantages and disadvantages. Made them restless; now perhaps makes them more capable."

"Well, right now I'm glad of it."

"Right now I think we all are. So you're moving to your sister's city permanently, then?"

"It's the place I'd put on residence forms, but once I've gotten teleportation down I'm probably going to go back to flitting about thither and yon."

"That sounds useful. Do you have any expectations about how long it'll take you to get teleportation down?"

"Guesstimating about a month but the information I'm basing that on is kind of spurious."

"That's impressively fast. I suppose you've been using your magic for a lot. 

Would that be good enough you could go home, if you wished to or if Arda needed evacuation?"

"Probably not. I can teleport, already, it's just that it's Conquest and I don't like using Conquest when I don't have to, and I tried going home when I got here and didn't understand how dire things were."

"Well. I'm a little bit glad that didn't work then, but it'd be good to have a means out of Arda now."

"I hadn't found Illia yet, so you'd still have her--and once I realized that I'd have done everything in my power to come back."

"I find it very unhelpful to dwell on might-have-been's anyway. I'm happy my cousins all made it through the Bragollach."

"Bragollach?"

"That's what it's been named. The Dagor Bragollach, the Battle of Sudden Flame."