Valinor is pretty and safe but very far! Quendi like singing and learning. What do bird people do?

They fly! And like exploring! And they warn everybody else when there are goblins around!

Oh good! Do they have a magic detection form? The Quendi were looking for one.

They do! Do the Quendi want to trade for it? They'd love to have that teleportation form.

They are nervous about sharing that one but eager to trade healing!

Oooooh. They've never heard of a healing form before. How does it work?

It's complicated, they don't quite have the vocabulary yet, but - here's the plant spell, they'll get some of the idea from that -

One of the birdfolk glides to the front of the crowd to get the spell form - it's much slower, transferring it without osanwë - and then flies back up to one of the pillars to examine it. The rest of the flock goes back to asking questions - what other kinds of magic do they have? what do they use it for? Would they be willing to make some of the birdfolk spellbearers, with the teleportation?

As they're asking, piece of paper appears in midair between the Quendi and the birdfolk, startling a few of them into flight. It's a note, obviously from Rána - nobody else's handwriting is that messy, no matter how much of a rush they're in - and it says 'the healing form is more dangerous than the teleportation'.

The Elves can't answer that without going back, but the obvious difference is that you can't get into the other dimension with the healing spell and can't attract Melkor's attention.

Well. Without two-way communication Rána's options are pretty limited, too.

The birdfolk want to know what the note is about!

Their leaders are worried! They want to know that birdfolk aren't the sort of mages who hex people.

Nope! Nope! Not at all, they're good neighbors.

...do goblins count?

Goblins totally shouldn't count. When was the last time they even caught a goblin? That was like... five years ago or something, last time one got into the hatchery? And he was in the hatchery, that totally shouldn't count.

Why would you need to hex goblins instead of just killing them?

Goblins are bigger and stronger and have better weapons, it's dangerous to get close to them.

So they hex goblins to quickly and painlessly kill them on the spot, sometimes?

...no, they don't have magic that can do that. But they don't do anything worse than warning the other people in the area that they're around, to goblins who aren't trying to kidnap their hatchlings.

But if the goblins are trying to do that, killing that goblin is entirely warranted, hexing them to kill goblin children right back is a sign of a pattern of behavior that, if given powerful enough weapons, leaves everybody dead. 

...........what?

Do they not do that? Because some species do that.

No, they don't do that. That's really fucked up.

That's why they have to be careful who they give magic! 

Understandably! But they don't do it. (There's some debate in the back, quiet compared to their usual ruckus, about what they should do if someone starts doing that kind of thing here.)

The mage, who'd returned to the ground while they were discussing that, approaches again. "We'd be very interested in trading our magic detection for the healing form. And I promise it won't be used for that sort of... atrocity." It's hard to read the expression on her beaked face, but her crest is pulled in tight to her head, in comparison to the raised crests they've mostly seen from excited birdfolk.

If someone started doing that sort of thing the Quendi would probably send them to Valinor where they couldn't hurt anyone. That sort of thing is very very bad. But they'll trade with trustworthy mages who'd never ever consider that, even towards goblins.

Well. Here is the magic detection.

Here's the healing!