King's Square? You should see it during festivals. The Noldor are a very big tribe.

She chuckles. Maybe I'll be ready to do more than sit and look at it by then; do you know when the next one is?

They're all the time. A few weeks, I think.

Oh, that's soon. Maybe, though.

Do you want to come sit with me next time I go to watch the crowd? It'd help to have someone else there.

Not supposed to wander off. He sighs.

That really shouldn't count. Not with an adult right there with you.

I don't know if you count as an adult, they don't know you yet.

Nod. Do you have any ideas about how to introduce me?

When the King gets back it will be easy. I could just walk through the halls introducing you to people, I guess. Or we could practice more Quenya. 

I should learn some more Quenya, yeah. But if you want to try introducing me to people now, we can do that first.

So he walks through the palace. You usually introduce people by their names so this is a little confusing.

If there aren't any other kobolds here I could just use 'kobold' as my name, or would that be confusing too?

That works! And I will tell them you haven't chosen a name in the sense we mean it, so they know what to call you but also that you don't have a name name.

Sure, that's fine.

And he introduces her to everyone in the palace.

And she's charming and personable and takes breaks when she needs to to keep doing that and only shakes a little bit.

How do they seem to take it?

They like her! They are confused and the word "Maia' is used a lot, but they like her and convey that she is welcome.

During one of the breaks, she asks Fëanáro about the Maia thing.

They are - minor spirits of creation. That's what people think you are because it's what all the people who aren't Quendi are.

Ah. That makes sense, then.

It's a little weird to me that you have so few kinds of people here. My world has dozens.

Really? What are they all like?

Well, most of them are animalpeople, and the animalpeople I'm most familiar with are the tigerfolk, who live in tiny little tribes the size of a family or two and don't stay in the same place very long. They're kind of scary but all right if you get to know them, mostly. And then there's the ones that make cities and stay in the same place all the time, that's elves and goblins and dwarves and humans. I've never met a dwarf or a human, but one of the tribes has a goblin for their Speaker, so I know a little bit about those - their culture isn't very nice, it's all about fighting with them, but the goblin I know is just fine, I think as people they might be okay. And then there's some kinds of people that live underground, ogres and troglodytes and stuff, I don't know very much about those at all - goblins build their cities underground, so the goblin Speaker has some stories about the people who live there, but they don't come to the surface, so I've never met any of them.

Oh. Yeah, it's just us here. No one's ever seen an animal that's a person, there aren't even any stories, except the Maiar so they assume that's you. The Maiar are very powerful and important, even the little ones. Also nice though.

Maybe someday I can meet one. Anyway, I think I'm ready to go again now if you want.

Okay. 

And they head to the edge of King's Square and sit in the shade of the palace. Now even more people notice them, and they bow to each of them and offer more things. Fëanáro says no thank you because apparently kobolds don't know how.