Portals to their work rooms will probably just distract them, but a permanent portal to somewhere would be nice. 

Sure, I'll ask them tomorrow where they want one.

- not sure what I'm going to tell them about why I didn't go today, any ideas? I was probably just going to be vague about it.

We all need a break sometimes, I doubt they worried too much. If they did they'll be reassured to hear we can have a mage so we're not dependent on you.

All right.

I'm going to want to talk to Findekáno about it before I teach any of your siblings the magic - we talked about your oath a little yesterday, and I don't think that's a problem - you already have weapons, being able to cast for yourselves won't make you less able to do it cleanly if you wind up sworn to kill someone other than the Enemy - but I want to make sure I'm not missing anything.

He's a good person to talk to for that.

Yeah.

I thought he was safe. I should wish that he is.

It just ends up hurting people in other ways if you try to keep them too safe. But I'm doing the best I can with it - sometime when I can focus well enough we're going to see if I can move stone fast enough to build them a city underground where it's safer.

That's a brilliant idea.

Yeah, I thought so. And then if we're lucky I can put spells inside the stone that'll hedge out incorporeal Maiar. Hard to test that, though.

Oooh, how are you planning to do that?

I'm not sure I can; I don't know what happens if a spell tries to teleport a Maiar without a body and I don't have any other forms that'd be useful. But detecting them is easy enough, they show up just fine to the magic detection form. And if nothing else I can make the walls light up when a Maiar goes through them, that'll help even if I can't do anything better.

It definitely will!

I should get some sleep. Mind if I sing?

Me too. Go right ahead. She burrows back under the blankets.

So he sings until she is asleep, then stares silently at the wall for the rest of the night.

She's up before dawn, as usual, and seems to be more or less back to normal.

I'm going to be making some changes, she says as she gets out of bed, to take care of myself a little better. And eating more like I normally would is probably going to be the most obvious one. That probably means I'm going to be eating around you less, is that okay?

Yeah, definitely. My cousins will take good care of you.

Yeah, once I'm ready for that. But, okay, good.

What's the plan for today?

Mostly the same as it has been - keep working on your siblings' list of things to be done, ask about that portal, get another room for your path, back here for lunch, work on the Ñolofinwëans' city in the afternoon. I can probably fit something else in there if there's something you'd like me to do.

No, that sounds lovely and reasonable!

She chuckles. Yup. Breakfast first, though.

Breakfast: is not eggs; is instead a potato, diced and fried and mixed with dried berries and spices.

Delicious!