But we need to know how many other vulnerable populations are out there -

...yeah.

...I can do way, way up above? Does that seem like it'd be safer? And then once we've checked that I haven't found Angband, make another portal lower over the same spot?

That should be safer, yeah.

Okay. -do you want to help, I don't know if this is the kind of thing you'll feel better or worse doing yourself-

Well, I need help with the portal part, don't I?

Right, I do the portals, and then I need an Elda to look 'cause my eyes aren't that good. Don't know if you want that to be you or not.

I can do it.

She nods. Okay, back in a minute, and then she pops by the Ñolofinwëan camp to get the pile of cloth scraps she was using earlier and give Findekáno a quick update, and then she's back and starts in on the portals.

And he lends Elven eyes.

Dwarven city.

City he identifies as one in Valinor.

Angband close it right away.

Yup. He can just rip the cloth next time, it'll be faster.

And they keep going. Forest. Another forest. Presumably there are people in these forests, but he can't see them.

Well, that's what the second round of checking is for, she can open another portal down where the people actually are and have a look around at those spots.

They are both forests with Elves, not humans or anything else mysterious.

Good. She'll keep going with new places, then.

Valinor. Forest.

It's going to take a while to be sure they haven't missed anything. She keeps going.

There are some other humans. These ones don't have stone buildings and there's no sign of nearby magic. Scouts?

Yeah, we can send some. Hold on to that one, I'll need it to get the location again.

He does. 

And another forest.

When they get in close this place is shining with magic.

...wow. Any idea what that is?

Doriath's said to have powerful magic but I don't know what kind of magic could possibly do that. Wow. It's pretty -

And their portal jumps to show them somewhere else.

...what.

She breaks the spell, just to be safe. It wasn't supposed to do that.

I gathered.

That was probably Doriath. And I'm not sure if that was a miscast or something else, but if it was a miscast we really shouldn't do that again. She starts trembling as it sinks in that she could have just died.

I thought miscasts only happened when you were new?