"There are some people it'd be useful for you to meet, yes, if you're interested in doing that; I've been working on a list." It wouldn't do to forget someone, after all. "Perhaps we should have a dinner party?"

Ugh. 

"My pleasure."

"Of course, if you need the time to prepare for your concert, that's more important." He doesn't think that's the case, but it's a valid excuse, and he's confident he can bring them around just fine on his own, it'll just take a little longer. And they'll all have front-row seats to the concert, and it'll be quite impressive itself.

"Nah, it's just - I rode with Oromë, I didn't do meet-and-greets."

Imòla nods. "I'll make sure they know." His gifts lie elsewhere, nobody is going to judge him for that.

"Thanks."

"Is there anything else I can do for you?"

"You're already doing a lot. I appreciate it."

There, Nelyo, that was the most responsible fucking conversation with an authority figure I have ever had, if you still existed you'd be so proud...

"All right. Thank you again; don't hesitate to ask for me if anything comes up." And off he goes.

Flop.

Nidela returns a few hours later, checks on him, commences backrubs.

It's all okay on the using magic. Lied, said it was a different kind. If anyone demands to be sent to Valinor I will now have to send them but I'm sorta okay with that.

Mmhmm.

The kobold's doing okay. The new one, I mean.

Good. Awake?

They were for a little while, yeah. Panicked, but the other one got them to calm down.

I bet they were panicked. Poor kid.

Yeah. Better than leaving them here, though. Backrub backrub.

Well, yeah.

I should talk to the kobold, maybe, see if there's a way to get them to stop doing that. I don't think elves are going to stop trying to defend their stuff.

I don't blame them. I have stuff that's really important to me, if someone were taking it away I'd be furious. I was only mad at them for being ready to kill him after they'd stopped him.

Yeah.

I'm not really sure what else they should do, though? Keeping them prisoner doesn't seem very much better.

Maybe there's a way to keep them out of the city with magic? We can send them very far away, but I don't know if elves can do that.

Magic doesn't work on kobolds unless you cast right on them. They actually checked that, back during the war, but it was pretty obvious even before.

If they touch a teleport pad, will they not move? Maybe they have the same protection spell their kobold gave them, on all the time... maybe they could be convinced to stop doing that, since it makes it impossible to handle them non-lethally?

Nope. Unless there's something weird about teleportation, I guess, but none of the other kinds of magic worked.