"We could go outside and commandeer some heavy furniture for you to practice with," he says, and then to his father's attendants, "we're going to move the house. It requires a few tables and large blocks of stone. Would you like to go fetch me some?"

"That sounds like it would work," says Matilda. She gets up, the better to go outside and commandeer some heavy furniture with Fëanáro.

And they walk outside. They meet quite a crowd. Telperion is at her height, and everything is silvery; a few thousand people have pressed in to stare.

"That's a lot of people," Matilda observes. "Gosh. I guess I should expect that sort of thing when I go around landing houses in cities."

"Do you do it often?"

"No, I've never done it before."

"It would have been smarter to land it outside the city. Though then it'd have taken me longer to find you and longer to discover books and writing."

"My head hurt a lot and I was afraid if I didn't land it really soon I might drop it. I don't think it would've been smart to risk dropping it," she says.

"Oh, you weren't flying it on purpose? Why were you flying it?"

"Something really weird happened," she says, attempting with mixed success to render her memories of the really weird thing into a comprehensible form. "And the really weird thing was trying to destroy a bunch of stuff, and I didn't want to let it, and then it kind of... dug my house out of reality, and it felt like we were falling for a really long time, and I had to hold the house together with my mind because otherwise the in-between place would've eroded it to nothing and me and Jenny would've died. And sometimes we bumped against a universe, but always at a really inhospitable part, like vacuum or the inside of a planet, and the first time we bumped against somewhere hospitable enough to have air, it was here and I pushed the house into it and then I was flying my house above your city with a really bad headache."

"In that case it was smart to land the house where you did," he concedes. "I ordered them to bring me giant blocks of stone and furniture and things so you could practice. It looks like that's over there."

Matilda smiles. "Okay. I'll see how much heavy stuff I can lift safely."

She goes over to the heavy things and picks out the lightest-looking available one, a sturdy table. It rises smoothly into the air and then lowers itself to the ground again. Next she floats two tables, then three.

He would like to watch her do that but it's not as interesting as the books and anyway he's fending off people who want him to go back home Fëanáro let the Valar handle this. So he mostly leaves her to it.

She lifts enough heavy things to verify that her head doesn't start hurting even when she is lifting more than the weight of her house.

Then she goes back into her house and explains matters to Jenny, and asks if Jenny would prefer to be inside or outside of the house while it is moved to its new location, and Jenny says she prefers to be outside, so they both come out of the house and Jenny holds Matilda's hand and Matilda picks up the house very carefully, making sure to get all the house-related dirt off of King's Square, and lifts it until it is too high to bump into anything, and then she lifts herself and Jenny too and flies all three of these things over to where Fëanáro said she could put the house, and there she puts them all down.

Fëanáro is surrounded by scolding people and is saying biting things to them and wishes the house would have crashed on him after all.

Well, after Matilda has put the house down and Jenny has gone back inside it she remembers that she never got an answer out of Fëanáro about whether or not she may dig up his land, so she flies herself back to look for him.

When she observes that he is surrounded by scolding people, she frowns slightly and flies toward him faster.

Her arrival does sort of break up the scolding. It at least gives everyone someone else to look at. Fëanáro continues asserting that Matilda and Jenny are his guests and he will do as he pleases.

"What's going on?" she asks, landing neatly on the ground next to Fëanáro.

"Everyone's upset and wants to ask the Valar what to do and want to take you to the King for an audience but his wife will be there and I don't want to see her."

"Oh. Why are they upset, specifically?"

"People are silly and get upset about anything they don't understand."

"That's true. But I don't like to make people upset. I should learn Quenya so I can explain things properly and then maybe they'll be less upset."

"I'll say things and send you the translation with osanwë so you learn the language." And he switches to Quenya. "Matilda is teaching me something important and the square is all cleaned up and we can bring this to my father's attention tomorrow and everyone should calm down."

"Thank you," says Matilda to Fëanáro, this being a bit of Quenya she has learned already.

Everyone else thinks this should be brought to his father's attention right now.

"They aren't ready for an audience with a King, she had a headache recently."