Most of them are working or passing through in a hurry.

The kobolds sit for a while, and then Tirinquo notices someone bringing in supplies for dinner and decides to follow them.

The person goes to a warehouse and starts dividing supplies for delivery by household.

Tirinquo watches for a few minutes, then approaches, hesitantly, and starts helping, mimicking what the Quendi is doing as well as they can without straining their injured arm.

- don't osanwë them, the other kobold sends. They won't understand it and it'll upset them if you try.

...okay.

They can be helpful. Each household gets a bag like so.

They can do bags like so, no problem. The other kobold joins in after a few minutes; the work goes much quicker with all three of them doing it.

Then the bags can be delivered!

The kobolds will come along, if that's okay?

Yep!

Off they go, then.

They leave a food satchel at the door of every house.

The full bags are too heavy for Tirinquo to carry one-handed, so they pretty much stay in the wagon. They like the wagon, though, it makes a good vantage point for watching people come and go.

They will not be begrudged a spot in the wagon.

And eventually all the bags are distributed.

Do you do this every day? asks the kobold as they head back to the warehouse.

Twice a week. Want to help every time?

They might, yeah. I'm not sure what else there is that they could do, though, they might end up doing something else instead.

All right. I'm not sure - they could help with the planting and harvest? Do they have magic like you?

They don't, no. They can definitely help with harvesting; I'm not sure about planting, but we can give it a try.

All right! Stars guide you!

You too!

And they head home.

Tirinquo did really well today, she tells Maitimo, later.

I am glad to hear it.

She explains how they spent their afternoon. I'm not sure they're going to be able to figure out a twice-a-week schedule, though. What'd really work best would be if there were a few different things that they could do any day they wanted to, that'd be the closest to what they're used to doing - someone can come get them to do things sometimes, but if that happens every day or they're pushy about it they'll get upset, they don't know there's a war.

We were not expecting them to be able to help, don't worry about it. I will ask someone to recommend you some things that they can do without advance planning.

Great, thanks.

How's everything else doing?

Everything is going well. Thank you.