Same as last time: they walk up to the humans and there's an osanwë conversation, and they walk around and talk to different humans and after a while they come back.

They don't remember when they started existing, and they can't count, he reports.

Huh. Let me figure out where they are...

Far east, bit south.

Further from Angband than the other ones, but I'm not sure how far away they'd need to be to be safe.

Do we have any basis to assume anywhere is safe?

We haven't seen any orcs at all near the Ñolofinwëan city, and it's way south of here. That might just be that they haven't found it yet or we haven't found them, but it's something.

I'm not sure we should move either but moving the ones who the Enemy doesn't seem to have found at all seems definitely excessive.

Nod. We should keep an eye on them, though.

Yep. Maybe send some people to help teach them agriculture and things...

Sounds like a good idea. If they want that; I don't know what their culture is like or anything. If they even have one yet.

I would rather teach people literacy and agriculture and metalworking and then let them decide not to use it if they like.

It's not necessarily that simple, but okay.

How so?

They might not all agree with each other about it, and they might not have a good way to handle that. If it was kobolds the ones who agreed with each other would just shuffle around and end up in agreeable tribes, but Eldar don't seem to manage that kind of thing that gracefully and I have no idea what these people will do.

Eldar did that too, back by Cuivienen and in Valinor. It seems like a good way of doing things.

All right. We can help them out with that, too, if it's a problem.

Seems harder to help people with how to structure your society than with literacy.

I mean, I'd want to see them making almost all of the decisions. But we can give them more options if they don't like the ones they have.

I hope so. And we can offer them citizenship here if they're similar enough to us that that'd work.

She nods. Seems to be working out okay for me, but I could easily be unusual.

And if there were a hundred of you it might make more sense to have you be a friendly neighbor tribe instead of being our people, since you need different things.

Yeah. Wouldn't that be nice.

Maybe someday.

Not likely. I'm okay here, that's good enough.

Okay. And he starts planning which people to send through as helpers to the safe human tribe.