Does he want a hug? She'll hug him, too, though she's more excited by Kiri because Kiri is a girl and magical. 

He'll take one but he's not hard up for hugs.

Hugs anyway! And then back to Kiri's side to ask to know all about their world and how old are they Maitimo said they grow up faster...

They're almost eighteen! ...They might actually be eighteen now, they haven't been keeping very close track of the way the calendar would be passing back home. Their world has very different magic - not just primes but also blessings, would Lúthien like to see blessings drawn, it's not very dramatic but it's still maybe interesting.

She is fascinated. 

So the twins produce paper blessings, and tell Lúthien what they all mean and how they're elemented, and demonstrate how Kiri will always draw grace last, and how Aleko will also always draw grace last if he's drawing for her, and how Lúthien will get aggressively uninformative results if she tries it.

She's fascinated. Can she draw for Kiri or Aleko, does that work normally?

Nope! Doesn't work for her at all.

What fascinating magic! And she can't even see them doing magic when they do it. That's pretty cool. 

You can normally see magic in progress?

If it's our kind. Since I'm half-Maia. 

I don't look magic though?

She furrows her brow at her. You look not-like-an-Elf-or-a-Maia in so many ways I can only guess which ones would be 'looking magic' by comparing with Aleko. But you do look different than him in ways that are probably magic. But I can't see magic happening when blessings are drawn. 

I mean what if I - She holds up her hand and is holding a handful of flame.

Well, she giggles, that obviously looks like magic!

And you can see temperature so I can't just do 'invisible' things with it, I suppose... She extinguishes the fire.

We can! You can't?

I can sense it in my range, but not visually - behind me just as well as ahead - and Aleko can't at all unless he can feel it the usual way.

Huh. Humans are so different from us. It's pretty interesting. Maybe after the war we can learn more in less scary circumstances. 

Maybe! It'll depend on how easily the Valar can move people around once they've considered it.

I think they're really busy now because of the destruction of Valinor. They should have more time after the war. 

Hopefully.

War might last a while, Luthien says. 

Yeah. I wish I could just decisively end it but I don't have that kind of power to throw around quite.

I've been desperately wishing the same thing. The frustrating thing is that if I'd known I could have been prepared.