Great, she does that. She gets in the habit of conjuring things and holding things with one part of her mind while focusing on whatever Thing She's Learning with the rest. She spends enough time not doing this for general psychological maintenance, but not much more. She is worried and driven and she's not going to let terrible things happen again that she could have prevented by not slacking off.

Macalaure composes songs for crop growth and cold weather. Everyone who can make magic swords and magic rings and magic jewelry does that.

...Ooh, Imliss wants to learn that, but that's not really an efficient use of her or anyone's time right now. Later.

They have all the time in the world.

Five Years into their exile Melkor visits.

Fuck.

...Well at least they know where he is now?

They send a messenger off to go tell the Valar immediately. Melkor walks over to Fëanáro and offers to help them build ships to leave Valinor forever.

The question is, is this a trap or a double-trap? Imliss sends to Maitimo. Is your dad supposed to accept and get betrayed horribly somehow or is he supposed to assume it's a trap, decline, and have that turn out horribly somehow?

Or both? Maitimo says unhappily.

Fëanáro settles the question by slamming the door in Melkor's face and yelling at him "begone, jail-crow of Mandos!". So.

What does that even mean?

'you're on the run from the god of the dead and that's pathetic, and go away', Maitimo says.

The go away part I got, it was the jail-crow part I didn't.

...Maybe he should have tried to stall him while the others got here.

One might think.

It takes the Valar three months to show up anyway.

Of fucking course.

Tyelcormo wants nothing to do with any of this. Once the city's built, does Idaia want to go south with him? See the continent? They're probably, like, leaving, once the exile's over, so it's now or never.

Yeah, that sounds like a really great idea.

So they ride south. It's a very long trip, thousands of miles, and they take it slow and are frequently distracted by each other.

He's so distracting! And the intervening countryside is also really beautiful when she can take her eyes off him.

She gets pretty good at archery. They give Tirion and Valimar a wide berth and end up tracking the coastline for a while down. That's good. Idaia should see Alqualonde.

Alqualonde is really beautiful.

The seafood is incredible, the beaches are stunning, the ships bob merrily in the shockingly colorful waters of the ocean.

They should go swimming! And hand-feed each other pieces of seafood dripping with butter.

They can do both these things! And listen to music by the waterside and get pictures painted of the two of them and build extravangant sandcastles encrusted with diamonds.

Apparently elves swim naked. Idaia draws upon vast reserves of willpower to keep from getting them kicked out of Alqualonde, too.

It's not like they swim with unbraided hair or something.

Yeah, naked means basically the same thing in Kilaiuossa.