She stays like that for a while. She's increasingly tempted to just... leave, go with him, wherever it is he goes when he's not here. It's maybe not a very practical plan, but she doesn't really doubt she could do it, and there's no actual reason not to...

If you want to come you can, but it's not very safe, the place we're staying, and it's a secret how to get there.

How is it unsafe?

The evil god I mentioned.

Evil god who takes prisoners: continues to be terrifying. But he did say he's been mostly stopped...

Situations with scary things and good things are better for her than situations where nothing's very bad but nothing's actually good, either. Yeah. I want to go. She needs to get some things from her house, and she should leave a note, but she can be ready to go inside an hour probably.

Okay. I'm going to let them know to expect you so they don't freak out. I'll be back in an hour or so.

And he runs out of sight and pops home. Kobold?

Yeah?

I have all the advice on how the kobolds can avoid trouble. He quickly summarizes it. The elf who gave it to me wants to come join us. You going to freak out if she does? I can make sure she doesn't see you.

There's a long pause. Keep them away from me, yeah.

Yeah, got it. And she won't be back in communication with the other elves so even if she somehow guessed it couldn't hurt any kobolds. Do you have a teleport so I can take both her and her lynx?

Yeah, I'll make you a teleport pad, just bring it back when you're done.

Of course. 

Hey, I can read her mind, she's fine.

Yeah, if I actually didn't believe that I wouldn't be letting them come at all. Still need to take this at my own pace - I still think I'll be okay once I meet them, but only if it's not a surprise or anything.

For sure.

Yeah.

She gets his location and pops by with a rolled up pad, enspelled to bring whoever stands on it to the Fëanorean camp. Good skill.

Thanks.

And he tells the King what he's up to and asks for some people to be found to help her get acclimated and then goes back to the elves' outpost.

Nidela's all packed and writing her letter. Ila pads over and requests scritches, I don't know what you told her, but, good job, whatever it was.

Scritches. You guys are gonna come live with us. I hope you're happy there.

Oh. Well. We'll be okay if we're together, wherever we are.

Have you already told everyone not to worry about you?

They'll figure it out. We go out by ourselves a lot, they know we can take care of ourselves.

Okay, whatever. 

And they walk well out of range of the city, and he puts down the teleportation pad and says this is a teleportation spell form; it'll take you to just outside our city.

Nidela hesitates, checking one last time if there's anything she wants to do before she goes, and then guides Ila onto the pad, and they disappear.

And he grabs the pad and teleports to join them. That's the city, he says. We got you a place to stay and stuff.

It's so pretty!

Ila will follow him in, Nidela doesn't need to think about that part; she can just drink everything in.