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The grownups are all very busy, but the children are all bored.
Bored or having nightmares. But Tasárinon was not on a ship and did not see the people dying and has only heard it thirdhand and can't exactly have nightmares about the look in his mother's eyes - well, he probably could, but he hasn't - so he's bored, and he is drawing on the floor. It is an absurdly intricate drawing. He has been embellishing it for three days.
"They're bright enough it'd be like having the Suns back, and beautiful, and the greatest work of the King - it'd be reassuring to have it watching over us - and they are said to have healing properties though that wasn't relevant in Valinor and they slow decay though that also wasn't relevant in Valinor. And they're so pretty."
"...it might be a bad idea to have something sun-bright around. The idea being that the place is hard to find."
They all look the same. If there are subtle differences between the three no one knows what they are.
And there's an extraordinarily pretty glowing gemstone in his hands. The Elves cheer.
"Huh," someone says after a moment, "it's not responsive to attention and conversation the way a Silmaril is."
"Just - change the mood of the lighting, or bring out someone's features specifically, or change the light they're giving off to fit the music that's playing...they're beautiful in isolation but in occupied places they respond to the places."
"...maybe Silmarils count as minds. Animals smarter than about snails do, it wouldn't have to be a fullfledged person to count."
"That would make a lot of sense, actually. Silmarils are definitely smarter than snails. Huh. Well, they'll love their pretty gemstone even if it's not an intelligent pretty gemstone, and the healing and everything else should come through fine - the indestructibility? Is it indestructible like a regular Silmaril?"
"It depends on how that works, I guess? If it is dependent on the mental properties then no, if it's inherently magical then no, otherwise should be."
Hello rest of the fleet! Of interest: basement dweller Silmarils only. How're you doing over here.
"Huh," Feanáro says, "I suppose I could have predicted that. They probably don't have the useful properties in that case. Mindless Silmarils probably don't count for Oath-related purposes but let's still not go handing them out, I am not sure if they'd still be weaponizable but they might be. Can we get ships that can land up safely on Endore? And you were originally going to spend this time talking to people to decide whether to do weapons; have you had the chance to do that?"
"The Enemy has the Silmarils, we've sworn to be undeterrable in various ways from getting them back. Before you arrived they were the only hope of achieving an Eldarin civilization outside Valinor. Anyway, pseudo-Silmarils in the hands of my subjects are certainly fine."
"Okay, I wish you'd told me that, I could have decided to experiment with making them in some other way and could have gotten different results and then where would we be."
"With a real Silmaril in the hands of my subjects which would still be fine. They're not going to start serving the Enemy. You'd be better able to aid us in the war if I had mentioned it and I should have."
"Having more of the things you're sworn undeterrable in retrieving around sounds like a bad idea. Anyway I've gotten lots of reading and talking to people in and you seem okay but I don't know anything about opposition, I'd like to do drones before landers."
So Cam makes a nice fleet of drones - he doesn't surround the whole planet with them, that would be giving a bit much away - and they descend upon Endorë.
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