My sister knows Tyelcormo well because they used to be best friends.

And they're handling things well enough to be talked to about them?

I'm sure she'd be happy to, yeah. She might say mean things, but she's just letting off steam.

Might help.

Irissë?

Yeah?

I think the kobold wants to talk to you?

Gotcha.

And she comes over a minute later.

And the kobold finishes up her spell and opens her eyes. Hi.

Hi. Irissë. Nice to meet you.

Same, I'm sure. I hear you used to be friends with Tyelkormo?

Yeah, back before he got really into abandoning people to die he was pretty okay.

Nod. They've been pretty okay to me, too, up to now, and I'm not quite sure what to think about what happened today.

What happened today?

They brought an elf from my world to live in their city - it's complicated, kind of. The elves tried to wipe out the kobolds in the forest I'm from, about thirty years ago; I was too young to remember practically any of it, but it was pretty awful, and I did grow up with everybody around me being terrified of them. And Tyelkormo's talked to this one and says they're okay - they want to help make sure nothing like that happens again, they have helped with that - and even read their mind, nobody from my world has osanwë, so they don't have private thoughts yet. But they're still an elf, and I'm having trouble with it.

Sorry. Uh, why'd you want to talk to me?

Well, I'm kind of trying to figure out how personally I should take it. Tyelkormo's been talking to this elf for a while, and they knew I was having trouble with that and working on getting over it, and then this happened. And Findekáno thought you might have a better idea of what they were thinking.

Uh, probably 'this elf is living in a bad environment they want to live somewhere else'?

Sigh. Yeah, probably.

You can hang out here if he's gonna go befriend your mortal enemies, or whatever.

Nod. I'm probably going to at least sleep here for a couple days, yeah.

Sorry.

It's not a problem. And I'm mostly frustrated at myself, anyway.

Why?

I'm really not being fair to them. If I actually thought this was dangerous I wouldn't've let the elf come at all; it's not that, I'm just scared.