...huh. That explains some things.

Oh? What things?

Why we find plants growing in some places sometimes. I could probably have figured it out if I'd ever gotten curious enough, I wonder how many people have and just not managed to explain it to anyone. ...cooking seeds ruins them?

Most kinds, yes, though lots are actually made to survive being eaten. 

Mmhmm, caught that. We cook most of our food, but the plants we don't are the ones we usually find growing near our campsites again.

That would explain it, then, yeah.

If you selectively pick from the very tastiest plants then in a few years the plants grown from seeds will be tastier, too.

...huh.

Better medicines, that way, too? That'd be interesting.

I don't know if it works for medicines but it should! 

Maybe I'll give that a try sometime. I know a lot about kobold medicine, no idea if any of it would work for Eldar though.

Seems unlikely. It'd still be good to have for kobolds.

I'd be a little surprised if none of it did, but it probably isn't safe to check, anyway. But, yeah, I'll definitely at least bring over stuff I might need, and teach you what to do if anything happens that I can't take care of myself. Not that I know all of it, but what I do, anyway.

Might be safe to check, we're hard to poison. When we're healthy, which we're. Not. Right now. But soon.

Yeah. No rush, I don't have much of most of it right now anyway.

In Valinor we healed very fast from anything, and if it was serious the Valar'd fix it.

Mmhmm. Kobolds don't have direct control over our healing at all, and we're much slower at it and more fragile in general - I wouldn't be surprised if we get sick easier, too. So that's definitely going to be something to keep in mind.

Okay. Should you tell someone now so if you're sick we know what to do?

Soon, yeah. Not that I expect it to happen, but I shouldn't take the risk.

And where would we get healing spells?

Hm? Oh. Magic doesn't come into it at all, actually. Most of it for illness is just about keeping someone safe and comfortable while they work through whatever's wrong with them - we do heal naturally, it's just slow and we can't direct it - so it'll be things like what plants are good for pain and nausea and making someone sleep, and what I will and won't be able to eat if I'm really sick, and what to do if I get dangerously hot or cold and how to tell if I am.

That makes sense. I'm surprised there's not magic, though. We have songs for it.

There might be some somewhere, but kobolds don't have it. Your songs are worth trying, too, if it comes up.

Okay. 

And more painstaking magic practice.

And more quiet cuddles. After a little while she checks on Maitimo again.

Sleeping.

(People've brought by a dinner for him when they brought hers and Findekáno's.)

Sleeping's good. She needs to fix the fire so it doesn't go out on him. She warns Findekáno and takes the soup and goes, very quietly, to do that.