Gardens and monuments and pretty peaceful things sound very relaxing.

She can do 'relaxing'. She'll have a partial list of suggestions ready for them in the morning.

They thank her and head back to their guest house.

Where Nidela is curled up on the couch with Ila at her feet, looking mostly recovered. How'd it go?

It went well. They tell her about it.

Oh good.

Sounds like you really made a difference here, Tyelkormo.

Huh? Nah, it was the lying to them about what their gods want.

I meant at the zoo, that counts. And it helps with the other thing, too. Imòla sounds like a good guy, but he can't do everything by himself.

I hope it helped.

I'm sure it will. It looks like proof you're real. And it's the kind of thing everyone will see that way.

Well, if it works. 

Sounds like it will. And if it doesn't, that's not your fault.

Yeah but it'd mean we'd have to do something else.

...yeah, so then we do something else. I really don't think it'll make anything worse, to have done this. And, ow, checking that was kind of painful, maybe she should be doing less of that kind of thing.

Hmm?

It's - Imòla needs to convince everybody to do what you said. That's going to be hard. It sounds like he's going to try, but he might not be able to do it with what he has now - I don't know, I don't know the people here. But you proving that you can talk to animals is a thing he has, though, and it's ... simply useful? It'd be hard for someone who disagreed with him to argue with it. It might not be enough, we might need to give him more things, but that was still definitely a good thing to give him.

Yeah, I got that, what I didn't get is what was painful.

Oh. Thinking, about anything complicated.

Okay. Later?

She shrugs. I'm mostly okay. I'm not going to be awake much longer, though.

Yeah but there's nothing that can't wait.

Okay. She snuggles back into the couch.

And he leaves. Can always come back tomorrow.

And Nidela naps on the couch, and raids the kitchen for leftovers, and makes her way to bed.

When Kenozì and Defiyi arrive with breakfast, she makes her way to the main room, Ila padding alertly alongside.

"Oh, hello, are you feeling better? I'm Kenozì, that's Defiyi, we're your guides. Muffin?"

Nidela tightens her fingers in her cat's fur and takes a moment to regret getting out of bed. "Some. Thank you." She takes the pastry and lets Ila guide her to a chair.

And the Quendi come down for breakfast and join them.