Mmhmm. She trances for a moment and offers her hand.

He takes it.

And here they are back in the dwarf city. (She resumes glowing.)

Hello? he tries, and gets no reaction. 

Then he tries Quenya, and they try a different language, and everybody sets to learning each others'.

Rána follows along reasonably well with the language lessons, and picks up a little more vocabulary.

And soon he has enough vocabulary to realize that the Dwarves are offering to trade weapons and armor for the portal and light magic. He tells Rána this.

She's vaguely confused, but: I don't think we should teach them without knowing more about them, unless you know a lot more than I do. I wouldn't mind casting some spells for them, though - only safe stuff, same reason.

I agree. Casting some things for them should be sufficient, they haven't even asked how to do it yet.

They asked me, and they know I'm not the only one who can, it might come up.

"What do you want me to put magic on?"

They want to know what all her magic can do.

Light, portals, teleporting - flying they saw but she probably can't cast that on them, but she can do something similar to make containers that make what you put in them lighter - and making water, and changing how plants grow. And she has a good amount of control over when the effects are active, if they want things that can be turned on and off or turn on or off automatically or need a password to work or whatever she can do that, too, and that lets her do some fancy things like make armor that teleports arrows away when they hit it.

They are very very excited about this and quickly start talking about various applications.

Her grasp of the language isn't good enough to follow that very closely. She does explain after a few minutes that all spells have to be cast on something, they can only affect that thing and in some cases things that touch it, and if the thing breaks the spell does too.

That is useful information that is rapidly incorporated into the discussion of applications.

Well, she's patient. She leans on Findekáno. Seems to be going well.

They seem like the kind of people who find magic more exciting than Quendi are annoying, at least.

Yeah, I wasn't quite expecting this.

I can come get you when they're done, if you want to go back.

No, this is fascinating, maybe they'll think of something we didn't test, and I wouldn't want to give them the impression I find them or their concerns boring.

Okay.

She sits and listens.

So does he! The Dwarves get back to the question of what they can offer in exchange for these things.

She catches the concept this time. She doesn't say anything but does kind of make a face.

They definitely don't notice that. They have a list of all the things done in their kingdom.

Good, she prefers that they don't.

This is exactly the question she brought Findekáno to answer; she leaves him to it.

He is definitely equipped to impromptu navigate trade agreements! They are tremendously pleased by and reassured by this, and warm to him considerably.

That's good, at least.