So we don't bring them here; I think that's still better than leaving them.

Where were you planning to take them?

I can find someplace. We should be looking for someplace anyway, even if we're not planning on moving them now; if something does happen with them we might want to move them in a hurry.

I agree that looking for a place is worthwhile.

All right. Maybe by the time we've found one we'll've come up with a better idea.

I should probably tell the Fëanoreans something about this.

Yeah, definitely. A new species!

Yeah. She grins.

Let's get back to looking at places, I still want to take you flying.

I think this is more important right now. Can we keep the portals up so we can keep an eye on them, learn what's going on?

Absolutely, and we can look for places to put them and places for flying at the same time, no reason not to.

Wish we could get a sense of how far from the Enemy they are, so we can be sure we're not just putting them closer.

Yeah. Maybe the Fëanoreans can come up with something... maybe look at where places are relative to the sun's path? That's not perfectly consistent, but it might be close enough for something like this, especially if we can look at different places at the same time.

That'll at least give us east-to-west, yeah.

And north-to-south, if we can compare places, there's a trick with shadows. She shows him the trick with the shadows.

Let's figure out where we are relative to Angband and where the new species is and then go from there.

Relative to Angband's tricky when we don't want to do portals to it yet, but I'll see what I can do. She gets to work.

It's visible from my cousins' camp, we can go from that.

Mmhmm.

Portals, carefully calibrated sticks, shadow-observation...

The humans are far north, almost level with Angband, and a ways east of it. The Nolofinweans are far south and somewhat east of Angband.

She reports this. It's not going to be hard to improve on that at all.

No. Unless interfering sets the Enemy off somehow.

Yeah. But we're not just trying to survive this war. We're going to do things that piss them off sooner or later.

It really might be wiser not to let them know we have teleportation abilities until we're ready to have a try at Angband, lest they figure out how to protect against them.

...I'd been assuming they had enough to at least guess at that, between Maitimo and your host. You think they might not've?

I don't have much sense of how closely they were watching anything, but even if they saw both those, they saw you teleport in and grab Maitimo and they saw us walk through portals. Lots of people being teleported against their will would be new.

...yeah, okay. Maitimo wasn't really awake when I found them, but I did have to touch them, hexes and things at a distance would still be new.