Knowing it can't happen again might help anyway. Magic should work, just can't trigger with their thoughts.

Well, you can definitely offer.

Yeah.

When you find Doriath, don't-  She freezes again, staring off into the middle distance.

Hmm?

It takes most of a minute for her to come back out of it. ...sorry. What was I saying?

When you find Doriath, don't -

Oh.

They were the ones who -

Okay. So don't what?

Don't ask me to talk to them. Or be there.

Sigh.

Lean.

Maybe eventually? But. It wasn't even - they didn't - She shudders and curls up. The tigerfolk had an excuse.

I think I'll want to talk to them to understand what happened and why. It seems like a bad idea to assume they're monsters before we've met them.

Mm.

Someone should but not me.

Yeah, that's fine.

Good.

He wants to talk about that, but this is probably not the time. He just hugs her instead.

She drifts off again, a little bit, but not so far as to be unresponsive.

I still shouldn't be alone, she says after a while, but I'm doing a little better. I could go back if someone went with me but I'd be pushing myself.

You don't need to, it's fine.

Okay. I'm gonna go get Tirinquo and lie down, then.

Okay. 

Hug. Thank you.

You're welcome.

And she goes.

...and he assigns people who are able to help the Dwarves instead and assures them that she didn't decide to snub them out of anger at them. Luckily by now there are enough other mages.

She usually checks in every day. It stresses him out tremendously,  because he doesn't get to interact with anyone else more often than once a week, there's far too much going on, but he has never asked her to scale it back because she seems to need a lot of support. When she doesn't show up he sends someone to check on her.