She sighs. This is also going to bother me, if it's restrictive enough to affect you like that. And your siblings, too, I'm sure. If there are places that there's reasons you shouldn't be able to go to, fine, but the idea is to let people get away from you if something happens, not to see how small a cage you can survive in.

The idea is to win the war, and use me as an asset to the extent I can so be used under the circumstances.

I have a bit of an idea of what it'll do to me if I start thinking like that. Unless we expect this to be over, or at least to the point where I'm not needed at all, in well under a year - no. I really shouldn't at all, fragile as I am right now.

That's fair.

Nod. You're a person and I'm going to treat you like one.

I wasn't in doubt about my personhood, and I want you to do what works for you.

Mmhmm, I was clarifying. You treating yourself like a resource to be used - bothers me some, but I'm not going to stop you, that'd be the same kind of harm. I'll help you if you want me to, even, within limits. But I'm not going to do it myself, not in ways that hurt you.

Yeah, sounds like that would not be healthy for you.

Nod. Yeah.

She considers for a moment and sighs. I should go catch up with your siblings. Before I go, what kind of materials do you need for the necklaces?

Does your world have amber? Something in that vein, easy to work with?

Amber's hard to find, but other soft stone isn't, let me see...

After a moment, she disappears, and then reappears a few seconds later with a large green stone. She teleports a small chunk off and to his tray. How's this?

I can work with that, sure. What size do you need?

None in particular for the spells - light enough that it won't be annoying to wear, sturdy enough not to break, big enough to be easy to grab in an emergency?

Thank you. And tell my brothers I appreciate it. They gave him a sharp knife. That was the obvious correct thing to do but he's still appreciative.

I will.

She teleports the boulder to within easy reach of him and breaks the top quarter or so of it into conveniently sized chunks. I'll be back for lunch, she says, and heads out.

The Feanorian camp stretches halfway around the lake.

Soon she should spend some time exploring it, but not today. She goes directly to the workroom.

Hi.

Hi. She sits next to him. Tell Carnistir Maitimo appreciates the stoneworking kit?

Okay.  Shame he's not good at anything like that which wouldn't serve the Enemy.

Nod. Well, they've been pretty good at keeping me going, which will hopefully help. But yeah. She sighs, softly.

Did you have any tests for me today?

He does. Lots of them.

She lets him push her a little past her usual lunchtime. There's nothing especially promising on the issue of blocking mages from casting - she does mention that she can be made to drop the casting trance if she's too overwhelmed, but the only obvious way of doing that is to have lots of people around so it's hard to extend the sense without running into too many of them; animals might work too but there'd have to be even more of them, since their minds are simpler.

Or sentient enchanted things, probably, but those take a long time.

Yeah, that could work. I'm not sure how much it'd take to reliably block a mage who was expecting the problem, though, and especially one who'd practiced handling it.