"Yes, you have very Elf-friendly taste in aesthetics."

"I like making pretty things!"

"Do you ever do music?"

"Not really."

"Well, even a few thousand years isn't long enough to get around to everything."

"Yeah. Maybe someday."

"You have forever!"

"It's pretty nice!"

"Yes. I'm hoping the Valar can do something about mortality without messing up your magic system. Maybe something that doesn't affect people until after they're sixteen."

"Yeah, that sounds like a promising angle. And I'll have to figure out where to put everybody, but I'm sure I'll think of something."

"In space! On other planets! You can just make air and water! I suppose you might have a scaling problem if you tried to do it all personally."

"My empire is mine, I want it to stay within reach."

"Portals don't do the trick?"

"Not as well as I'd like. I can get to anywhere else on this planet as fast as I can get to anywhere in Skygarden, but Skygarden is still closer, it - matters to how I feel about it."

"Permanent portal-doors?"

"Other planets are still farther away than this one. I'm not saying I won't do it, just that I'd rather not have to."

"I think it would be fun to have a four-dimensional city scattered all over a galaxy but it's up to you."

He laughs.

"Everything would be next to so many more things!"

"True!"

"You could be in the middle of a city and a block from a beach and a forest and five different seasons and a different city."

"Technically you could do the same thing all on one planet!"

"Yes, that's true. There are things you couldn't, mostly celestial cosmetics - number of suns and moons, rings..."

"Well, only ever having been to the one planet, I wouldn't know much about those."

"Valinor has two suns, Endorë has one. They each only have one moon though. Some planets have dozens."