Of all the times to experience deja vu, notifying emergency services about a snake monster before it eats her is an odd one.
"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."
"Well, if there's enough transit you can possibly borrow Macalaurë. He's much better."
"If I heard someone sing more beautifully than you I think I would cry, and I prefer not to do that in public."
"We have invented devices that will record music and let you play it back anywhere you like."
"Sekar."
This is not the Emperor's name; the Emperor's name is Solekaran. But it's not entirely unlike the Emperor's name, either.
She was not expecting the unvarnished truth. "I'm glad you enjoy my singing."
"Well, I already mentioned architecture. I don't really have a career as such. Don't need one, I've got money regardless."
"In Valinor and some Endorë Elf countries, there's an arrangement where the government gives everyone plenty to live on, funded by taxes on people who choose to work anyway or want scarcer things than necessities."