You'd presumably only need them distracted long enough to get a shot in, right?

Not necessarily. It turns out I can make things arrow-proof. Plus you have to know who to shoot at, and be able to find them - it's not hard to cast through walls.

How do you make things arrow-proof?

Trigger of 'small thing hitting the enspelled thing at high speed', teleport the arrow away.

That'll be really useful.

Yup. I haven't put it on a person yet but from how it worked when we tested it on the other host's tents I expect it'd work just fine that way, or on armor. Or clothing, if it was sturdy enough, the arrows do hit a little bit.

I really think we might win the war relatively quickly. That would be something.

Yeah. I really hope it works out like that.

You wanted to get something set up to keep Nelyafinwe safe?

Yeah. I'm really hoping we come up with a better idea than this, but - she outlines the plan as it stands at the moment.

That should work. As long as he can talk to everyone I expect he'll be fine, it's not as if he left Tirion much back at home...

Nod. And I can always add more places if they want me to. For ones that aren't nearby it makes sense to let them teleport between them rather than do paths the whole way, but hopefully that isn't really a downside.

I don't expect so, no.

I'm kind of worried they're not going to tell me if they don't have enough space to be comfortable, though. I think I'd notice eventually, but I'm not sure I won't be too busy to notice as quickly as I ought to.

He'll be all right.

Yeah, probably.

I should get back for lunch, unless you need me for anything else.

Mind if we think some on ways to kill mages?

Yeah, go ahead.

Thanks. Later.

Mmhmm.

And back to the cave she goes.

He's carving very intricate little pendants. Hey!

Hey! Those're really nice.

He looks vaguely bewildered. Uh, thank you. How's it going?

Okay. They had an idea for blocking mages that might sort of work - trying to use the casting sense on too many minds at once is overwhelming, and sentient enchanted things should count. They're thinking about ways they could maybe kill a hostile mage, now - I'm kind of assuming that if it's common knowledge that they can, nobody will give them reason to.

I bet that's the idea, yes. And my brothers don't like feeling helpless. If they have a plan even if it's not perfect, they don't feel like they're just existing by the continued grace of someone powerful enough to wipe them out - sort of like how you described your people feeling about the elves, it forces one to be so small and my brothers can't do it very well -