Yeah.

Hats: she picks some out.

How much of a problem is it going to be to get hats if we don't have a convenient trip to this world to buy them on?

I mean, can't you just make them?

I guess I can pick up sewing, but it'll take me a while to get any good at it.

We're not really producing luxury stuff right now, because of the war. Guess people might have some already.

This seems like kind of a different thing than that.

Okay.

No one'll say anything if you just tie it back, and Nelyo'll talk to them if they stare. It's not more important than food or walls or armor.

That really doesn't seem sufficient - the problem is her being uncomfortable with people thinking of her that way at least as much as them possibly being rude about it - but maybe she'll come up with something better by the time it comes up.

I mean, they definitely aren't. If that helps.

Some, yeah. Not as much as it would if she understood why, but that'd involve thinking about this more.

You're a different species and also Quendi - don't. In wartime. Ever.

Huh. Okay. That does help, and it's very different from how elves do things - not so much the species part, that's not taboo or anything but is uncommon, but they're encouraged to have kids when there's a war on.

If that comes up there's gonna be a fistfight or something, that'd be considered really evil back home.

Huh. Well, it'll be pretty easy for it not to, I'm not going to have kids anyway.

I mean, if the elves here mentioned it to some Quendi, not with you personally.

Oh. It probably won't? Unless you're planning on having a bunch of personal conversations with people or something, and even then I don't think it'd be very obvious if it did. They'll probably think the send-your-kids-to-be-acolytes program is sketchy, too - because it kind of is - but it's not actually clear that that's what it's for without more details than would generally come up.

(The shopkeeper is starting to stare; she buys her hats and continues on her way.)

I'll give everyone a heads-up just in case.

Okay.

So when they get back he does that.

Everyone is in fact horrified at the idea of having children in wartime. 

She isn't really sure what the big deal is, but she's certainly not going to defend the practice; she tries to stay out of it.

They are debating whether to tell the elves the gods disapprove of that too.

She can't really think while they're doing that. She goes to her room.

They end up deciding to wait until the current revelations are taken into account.

Nidela reemerges from her room a while later. All done?

They are still talking, but they tell her the conclusion to that particular discussion.