They are both forests with Elves, not humans or anything else mysterious.

Good. She'll keep going with new places, then.

Valinor. Forest.

It's going to take a while to be sure they haven't missed anything. She keeps going.

There are some other humans. These ones don't have stone buildings and there's no sign of nearby magic. Scouts?

Yeah, we can send some. Hold on to that one, I'll need it to get the location again.

He does. 

And another forest.

When they get in close this place is shining with magic.

...wow. Any idea what that is?

Doriath's said to have powerful magic but I don't know what kind of magic could possibly do that. Wow. It's pretty -

And their portal jumps to show them somewhere else.

...what.

She breaks the spell, just to be safe. It wasn't supposed to do that.

I gathered.

That was probably Doriath. And I'm not sure if that was a miscast or something else, but if it was a miscast we really shouldn't do that again. She starts trembling as it sinks in that she could have just died.

I thought miscasts only happened when you were new?

Yeah? But that's the only thing I know of that'd make a spell do something other than what I made it to do.

...might be what we were afraid would happen if we looked at Angband. Something powerful noticed.

Yeah.

Least it didn't happen with Angband.

Mmhmm. She curls up. I need a minute.

Of course. Hug?

She is so tired of pretending she believes his pretending. Pretty sure you don't actually want that.

I have no idea what I want but I feel whole when I am able to get all the motions right and I think the person I was before all of this would have wanted to offer you a hug, and would have wanted me to do that.

Mm.

Still feels like torture, or no?

I don't think you want an honest answer to that, I think it'll hurt more than you're expecting.

...yes, then. She does look pained. I'm not going to stop you from doing that to yourself, but I'm not going to contribute, either.

Okay.