He'll run off to start doing designs, but he won't bother her.

And after half an hour, the paper contains a little portal showing a view of the bed from the middle of the room. Got it!

Cool! I was trying to make wheels of buckets out of wood so you can turn a constant thing like water pouring into a stepwise things portals can change around.

...you might have to just show me. Or draw it, if that'd work.

Okay. He starts drawing.

While she waits, she takes one of the other brushes and pokes at the portal to test that it works how she's expecting.

That is so cool. Are you sure I can't learn?

Yeah, she leans over and hugs him. Too dangerous. The Valar are working on it, though.

And I'm getting more responsible and grownup.

Mmhmm!

You did really well with your parent, yesterday, by the way. You were too distracted to notice but they really liked getting to spend time with you like that.

He didn't seem sad or mad, he agrees, it was nice.

Better than that, they were happy, see? She sends a brief memory of Finwë smiling down at Fëanáro.

I'm not sure how you can tell. Anyway he wasn't happy with me he was just happy I wasn't embarrassing him.

No, they were very definitely happy with you. I'm not sure why you can't tell, it's really obvious to me - I could see that they were paying attention to you, not anyone else around us, and it was the wrong kind of happy to be about not being embarrassed. I think they like you and don't know how to be around you without one or the other of you getting upset and were just really happy to get to do that.

Maybe.

Pretty sure.

Why do you think it wasn't?

I just feel like being around me always makes him stressed and sad so probably this time wasn't different. 

That, yeah, you're probably right. But stressed isn't the same as embarrassed; it just means they were expecting something bad to happen, it doesn't tell you anything about what or why all by itself. I think they'd figured out that trying to spend time with you always meant someone getting upset, and they were stressed about that, and it didn't have anything to do with you being embarrassing.

Was I embarrassing?

I don't think so. Hug! I think they might've been a little worried about how much you wiggle but when I explained that it's surprising for someone your age to be able to sit that long at all I think they understood - some things are hard when you're little, and I'm not sure they really understand that, and I'm not sure if my guess of why they might not is right or not, but I'll keep talking to them about it.

Why is it you think they might not?

Well, you haven't gotten to be around other kids a lot, right? Or at all, maybe; if you have friends you haven't mentioned them and I'd kind of expect you to have by now. And if your parent's parent raised them the same way they're raising you, and they didn't have a chance to be around other kids, they might not know what's normal and what's not because they just never had a chance to see it.

I don't have any friends, people don't like me and I'm not allowed to leave anyway. My father was a kid thousands of years ago.

I like you fine, Fëanáro, I think you're sweet. And you can leave with me - have you noticed that I'm mostly letting you pick where we go? - and I bet you could invite people to come here if you wanted to.

Yeah I guess. You like me because you don't know anyone else, though.