Sure, but you didn't know.

Should have.

Sigh. Maybe. But from what I've heard it sounds like the kind of place where it'd be hard to figure that out, too.

You know better now, you'll do better now. No point in doing anything with the past but learning from it.

Yeah. But I don't want to teach my brothers to be less naïve on this front.

Yeah. I kind of think Tyelcormo might do okay, but Carnistir and Curufinwë don't seem to have the flexibility, even if there weren't other reasons to worry about how it'd go. Like, if they had to we could help them through it? But it'd be hard for them.

Curufinwe is not able to think about anything less interesting than engineering right now, he's not going to be interested in me beyond whether I try to force him to bow to a King Father'd have hated.

Sigh. Yeah, probably.

Which I might decide to do! In which case my mental fitness will certainly come up! But I have at least a little space to maneuver in.

Nod.

Anything you want me to do or not do related to that, by the way?

Don't think there's anything, but thank you. I'll just do what's needed.

Nod. All right. I would like to make that easier for you if I can, though.

You are! They're so distracted with new weapon ideas they barely have time to dwell on what happened to me.

She snorts, amused. Well, I can definitely keep doing that.

We appreciate it tremendously.

Doesn't hurt that I want them dead too.

He needs it. The Eldar aren't a warlike people.

She nods, and takes a minute to focus on the food she's preparing.

Do you have a plan for telling them about the magic forms I have if they can't come up with a good defense? I think they're going to find the magic-vision useful, I'd like to be able to give that to them as soon as I can.

Oh, yes, we should tell them right away. 

...all right. None of these are especially dangerous anyway, I guess they can't be too upset? I'll tell them tomorrow, I should have at least a basic magic-vision spell worked out by then.

And they're at least realistic enough they'd rather know about dangers, if not realistic enough they'd want to treat their brother as one.

Nod. Fair enough.

I suspect the magic-vision will let people see magic from other worlds, too, not just this one. And with pretty good detail, though I'll probably have to make specialized spells for anything really complicated.

That'll be easy to test, we have lots of magic armor and weaponry.

Sounds good.

He keeps at the carving. How are you holding up? Need a day off?

Well enough. I think if we make it another few days without any big problems I'll have things settled enough to feel comfortable taking one.