Ooooooo.

"Thank you so much!"

"Any time!!"

That is so cool. They'll have to tell the other acolytes; maybe they can set up some kind of group demonstration before he goes.

For now they finish their lunch and head back to the zoo.

Where he's delighted to help out with everything, because they appreciate him and it's great!

They do! It is!

It's midafternoon when they finish visiting all the animals and relaying all the messages. They make a quick stop to see the head zookeeper, who gets a overview from Defiyi and then thanks Tyelkormo for his help and assures him that she'll make the necessary changes.

"What would you like to do next?" asks Kenozì.

The Quendi would love to go somewhere pretty.

There are lots of places like that. Defiyi suggests the water garden; Kenozì agrees that it's a good choice, but if they'd prefer something else she can suggest things.

They have no objections to the water garden.

The water garden is, as the name suggests, focused heavily on water plants, in arrangements ranging from natural-looking ponds stocked strictly with unmodified plants to one-of-a-kind custom creations heavily integrated with spell-based fountains and waterfalls. Some of the displays are even interactive, for example the water lily pond with pads big enough to walk on.

The Quendi are delighted and sing while they explore.

The garden is less crowded than the shopping center they were in yesterday, but they still have an audience in short order. Defiyi and Kenozì keep anyone from getting too close, though.

The Noldor don't really mind being crowded and admired, but they're happy to have the audience kept at bay, too.

Well, they're letting people close enough to admire them, but standard protocol - they're trained for this, that's why they were assigned to them - is not to allow crowding, so that's what they're going to do unless told otherwise. Plus, this way the Quendi can keep exploring the garden if they'd rather do that than stop and give another concert.

They will sing and explore!

The garden continues to be pretty, and the crowd continues to accumulate. After a while, two more pairs of elves arrive on hawks to help manage it.

Elves are very organized! They mostly ignore all of this.

Good, the idea is to allow them to do that.

Eventually, it becomes dinnertime.

They will stop singing to eat.

The crowd disperses as they head out of the garden; the extra pairs of elves call down their hawks and leave as well. Kenozì suggests a restaurant, and once they've settled in, asks, "Did you have anything else in mind to do while you're here?"

"That was all we wanted to achieve with this trip, really."

She nods. "Well, you're more than welcome to stay as long as you like - I imagine you'll want to wait for your companion to recover before you leave." What's the deal with that, anyway?

"Yes, definitely. And it's beautiful here. We will probably stay a few weeks, but hopefully won't be so much of a distraction all the time."

Both elves grin. "It's no problem, really."

"If you're going to be here that long, maybe we can arrange for you to give a real concert," suggests Defiyi. "If you'd like to."

They would like that!

The elves don't know how to arrange that themselves, but Defiyi knows who to talk to about it; he asks them some basic questions about the logistics and says he expects to hear back about it in a few days. Then Kenozì starts asking about what kinds of things they might want to see - there's plenty of gardens if they want to stick to those, but also plenty of other things; she can work out a schedule for them, if they want one, once she has a better idea of what it should include, or at least give them a list of suggestions better than what she can come up with off the top of her head.