Good. They're moving to the new city site now; I put up all the basic defensive spells for them, so they should be fine tomorrow, but I'll check in anyway. You?

Want to try to learn to walk, but those are going to be harder bones to patch up.

She nods. Anything I can do to help? I know a little bit about the rehabilitation process after a broken leg, but that seems to be more about learning how to use it again than actually healing it...

I don't think so. It'll just take some time, and it's probably different between species anyway. Thanks, though.

No problem. Let me know if you think of anything.

Where's their camp, is it pretty?

Mmhmm, she sends the overhead view and some of the nicer ground-level ones. We couldn't figure out where it is exactly, but it's not close to Angband at all, maybe not even on the same continent.

Thank you.

You're welcome, she grins, and then turns her attention to the meal she's preparing.

He commits the images of the camp to memory. Far away and safe. Hard to think how he can do better than that.

Mmhmm.

After a while, dinner is ready, and she sits and watches the sunset with him while they eat. Looks like it might snow tonight, she comments.

It snows here?

Mmhmm. She sends a couple memories of the forest blanketed in it. It won't get like that for another month or so, but yeah. That's why kobolds usually spend the winter in caves; it won't ever get too cold in here, no matter how bad the weather is aboveground.

Tirion was always warm but we spent the last five Years up north, it snowed like that there too. Don't know about Beleriand.

It'll probably change now that there's a sun, anyway. We'll have to wait and see.

And the Nolofinweans might have different seasons than us anyway.

Possible, I guess. It'll be interesting to find out.

I don't know how things work with a Sun; in Valinor different places were different seasons sometimes. How was it on your world?

I'm not completely sure, actually. The jungle has longer days than here, which is kind of surprising - I would've expected the sun to act the same way everywhere, and I don't know if that's just that warmer places have longer days or if there's something more complicated going on. But days get longer and shorter in a very predictable way, and the seasons follow that, at least here.

How do suns work, do you have any idea? Fixed path across the sky? What carries them?

Not fixed but predictable paths; the longer the day the higher in the sky it'll get, and it doesn't start from the same point on the horizon every day but it's always close and always goes in the same direction. Other than that, I don't know... I do know it isn't affected by anything but time, having a cold summer or a warm winter doesn't affect it at all; you can tell time by looking at shadows once you're familiar enough with how they look at different times of day and year.

Huh. That sounds useful.

Mmhmm. I should mention it to your siblings, actually, it might help them figure out what's going on with your sun a little faster.

I bet it will!

Mmhmm. It should be pretty obvious with a couple days' observations if your sun is following about the same rules as mine, at least, and if it is we'll be able to tell what season it is, too - I think it's spring, but it'd be better to know.