Shrug.

So, which way to the linguistics guild?

He leads the way. The streets are still very crowded and noisy but people've learned not to offer her things as much.

Having a guide and not having Fëanáro to keep an eye on help. She notices a few people deciding not to offer her things and smiles her appreciation at them.

The linguistics guild has a sprawling stone building where lots of people are debating things and lots of people are reciting poetry and lots of people are sitting around talking.

The kobold is charmed, and also homesick for her Speaker's circle. She takes a location near the entrance where it's not too crowded, and then goes to listen to a debate.

The debate is about how to categorize styles of art. It's very involved and everyone present seems to be having a lovely time.

Her Quendi is really not good enough to follow it, but just being around it is, well. Lovely, and then she has to go back to Fëanáro's room because she's about to cry, abruptly enough that Alamande gets left behind.

Feanáro's in his room playing with modeling clay. Designing another fountain.

She burrows under the blankets and tries to be quiet. She doesn't succeed very well.

Did you do all your errands? I had a new idea for a fountain, it's going to be so amazing.

No response. Well, unless continued sobbing counts.

...what's wrong?

I miss my friends.

Oh. I'm sorry. Can you bring them here?

Not, sob, not really. No, probably not at all, and it'd be a bad idea to try.

Why not?

Because I'm exiled, because I'm a spellbearer - they'd try to kill me if I went back. Not the friends I'm thinking of, but the other people who'd be around if I tried to go talk to them. The sobbing has slowed down, but she doesn't exactly sound happier.

So just summon your friends here.

My magic doesn't work like that, and even if it did, it would hurt them to be in a strange place by surprise; I wouldn't do that to them even if I could.

But wouldn't it hurt them to know you were so sad?

Deep sigh. Yeah, probably, but they have their tribes to help them with that, and it's not a surprise, surprises are really hard for kobolds.

So much that they'd rather let someone suffer than be surprised by a way to help them?

It would hurt them a lot. And anyway it's not possible.

I am sure we can figure out how to make it possible, he says. That part's easy.

But it would still hurt them and I don't want to do that to my friends. It might even get them exiled, too.