"Oh? What's magic like in Valinor?"

"My species doesn't have it but our friends the Ainur do. It's very different; it's innately part of them."

"But still good for cheating at architecture, hmm? Just the construction, or can you do impossible things with the end results too?"

"There are a few places where they allowed structures to stand that shouldn't. It's not common unless that's the only way to get an effect, it prevents us from learning more engineering if they do it all the time."

"Well, sure, but building impossible things is fun. —Architecture is something of a hobby of mine, is why I'm curious."

"My world is more technologically advanced than yours, there are things that might look impossible without magic that aren't if you have the right material and process."

"Oh? Like what?"

"Buildings this island could crash into if they stood at sea level."

"You're joking. How?"

"Steel and reinforced concrete frames."

"Huh. Steel buildings, there's a thought."

"The frames. The outsides are usually glass or stone or something pretty like that."

"I usually don't like my buildings to - hide themselves. If I'm building in wood you see wood, if I'm building in stone you see stone. But that doesn't mean I can't put in windows..." he trails off, thinking, and then grins at her again.

"There are skyscrapers whose outsides are all glass."

"Skyscrapers, is that what you call them? What an image. I love it."

"It's an imperfect translation but yes."

He laughs delightedly.

"We don't have a flying city, though."

"So we're winning in at least one respect."

"So you are."

"I'm sorry you're stranded here," he adds. "If someone could find you a way home, would you want it?"

"Oh yes. Especially if it would be possible to go back and forth, that would be amazing. But my husband and friends and parents are surely frantic."

"Well - I wouldn't have the first clue how to do something like that, but there's a lot of magic in Skygarden."

"It's possible the Valar will find a way to fetch me back."

"Hope so. Although I'd miss your singing."