Lots more, but let's chew over this and then give you the rest in a batch next time you're here, so as not to waste your time.

All right. See you then.

...back to the cave. She needs to decompress and anyway it's arguably lunchtime.

All well?

More or less. Found out some interesting things I can do with my magic, most of it's not very directly useful but we have a plan. And it seems like I can get along fine with your siblings right up to the point where the other host comes up.

I am glad to hear that. They probably won't bring it up much.

Nod. They were pretty nice to me other than that. And anyway, we found a couple interesting weapon uses and some other ones, they're testing portal-light for growing plants with and I was able to improve some projects they were working on. ...also a hex, or two hexes depending on how you count it, it's the same technique but either definitely lethal or pretty gentle depending on how I do it.

I am very glad to hear it. They were not nice to you once the topic came up? I was assuming you meant you got along with them poorly because they wouldn't apologize.  What are they being rude to you over?

Sigh. They weren't rude, I'm just too touchy to be very diplomatic right now - I want to like them, and that's hard when they don't like the people I like.

Yeah, it really is. If it helps, I think they all like Findekáno a lot, the people they don't like are some people in Findekáno's tribe who promised to kill my father and ruin everything he tried. And those people aren't bad, they were just sad and said awful things, but sometimes it's hard to like people after that.

She flops back to lay flat on the floor, the back of her head cradled in her hands. Yeah, and it was pretty fair given that. Sigh. I think I just need things to stop happening for a couple days so I can think through all this and figure out how I feel about it. Not likely, though.

You can take a few days off. Or a few days cuddling Findekáno. This war won't pivot on a matter of days; let yourself take the things you need.

Yeah, maybe I should. I still want to get Findekáno's host off the ice as soon as I can, but that'll be pretty straightforward anyway, I think.

It sounds like it. And can be done while cuddling him, if that's what is restful for you.

She giggles. Some of it, anyway. Can't cast while I'm cuddling, the magic transmits by touch. It's the worst thing.

That is inconvenient.

I'll live. Or just teach them the magic, then it won't matter. Next step in the god-murdering plan is getting more spell forms, I should have the light one to pass around before too long.

I am glad to hear it!

She sends pleasedness. Yeah, the best idea we have so far is to teleport them to an empty world they can't get back from; I'm hoping the magic-detection form will let me find worlds without any magic.

That really might work.

Yup!

And then we can start setting right everything we did to have the best chance in the war.

...should I ask? I should probably ask. Get all my thinking done in one go.

Sorry, ask what?

What's included in that. It's okay if you don't want to tell me, though.

Lots of people said very cruel and hurtful things to each other. My uncle Nolofinwe tried to convince the King to exile my father from the tribe, and my father never forgave him. We tried to get some boats to cross the ocean, and the people who the boats belonged to tried to shoot us to stop us, and they killed many of us and we killed many of them. The people abandoned on the Ice.