Cuddlesome hug, humming. You don't have to be best to be important, or to have interesting things to say. I'm pretty sure most of the people I saw talking weren't the very best at the things they were talking about, they didn't carry themselves like they thought they were.

They might be and not know it. People who are really good just see ways they could be better. And I'm not even pretty good at anything yet. 

Hmm. Maybe, but it didn't seem like that to me. Anyway, you haven't had chances to try most things yet, I don't think? And you did really well with the fountain, I think you were more than pretty good at that.

Yes but it was you with the magic. 

I should do more fountains.

It was me with the magic but the magic was the easy part, figuring out what you need to make it do is the hard part. I wouldn't've been able to make a fountain nearly that pretty by myself. Yawn. We can do more fountains tomorrow, if you want, I think it's bedtime for kobolds now though.

It's always bedtime for kobolds, he grumbles.

Yeah, sort of. If you want to stay up and think about fountain designs that's okay. I can do more complicated spells than the ones you've seen - I don't have much practice at it, but they can react to things around them, like, do one thing when there's a shadow on the bowl and another thing when there's not, that kind of thing. Yawn.

Oooooh! That's amazing, we can do so much with that!

Mmhmm. So think about what you want to try and I'll cast them for you in the morning. Her humming takes on a lullabyish tone.

Okayyyyy. And he sits up trying to imagine it out, bouncing slightly on the bed.

Well, it was worth a try. He didn't sleep last night, he'll probably nod off on his own eventually.

She keeps humming for a while, but eventually it fades out, replaced by the steady breathing of a sleeping kobold.

He does nod off on his own eventually. 

The next morning, she's careful to be very still as she works on her teleportation-drawing.

And after a while he stirs and then jerks awake. I had some ideas! It can be a moving statue! I hope I didn't forget all of them when I fell asleep, I hate falling asleep...

She doesn't startle this time, but giggles and hugs him. How would you do a moving statue?

Water'd be one way to do it, you could have the water push the moving parts. Or you could have it move in wind but the Valar don't make the city windy very often. Or you could let people move it.

Nod. That sounds like it'd be hard to do with teleported water, since the spell has to know exactly where to put it. But we can try it anyway, if you want. Breakfast first, but I can go get it while you start thinking about how to do it?

Yeah. Can the spell fill buckets that tip when they're full? That'd be one way.

If the buckets don't move around other than to tip, yeah. And if they need to, I might be able to do it with a kind of spell I haven't tried yet, I'm not sure. Food first, though, then spells. And she gets out of bed and disappears, returning a few minutes later with fruit and pastries.

What's the kind of spell you haven't tried yet?

Portals. The spells I've been doing, you touch them and they move you all at once? Portals would be, you touch them and you go through a little bit at a time, as you move. And I'm not sure what happens when you go backward after you've gone partway through a portal, but I bet you can bring things back through with you, that looks like how it should work.

Ooooh! That'd be really cool, yes, let's practice with those!!

She chuckles. All right. It's going to take me a while to cast the first one, though, since I've never done one before and I want to make sure I do it right so it's safe.

I'll be patient! He immediately starts wiggling.

You, she grins, are very cute.

And then she takes a blank piece of paper and closes her eyes. It'll be about half an hour, if nothing interrupts her.