I think I love them but I need space to work that out. The Enemy tried using it to hurt us.

Nod. Did you get any idea of what their priorities are going to be - food, weapons, whatever?

The Sun's new and should let them grow things. The Enemy hasn't attacked them. They may want mobility - if you can open portals from here to other places on the continent -

Sure, assuming they can either get me there or give me enough of the right kind of details.

I bet we can get it by the process that found us the coastline. They have surveyors and things. They'll also want portals to the sites of their mines and quarries.

Nod. That aiming method isn't very good if there are several places that are similar, but it's a good first thing to try at least. Portals to work sites should be straightforward.

Could you find, say, 'a stone quarry' or 'an iron mine' without anything else to aim for?

Maybe. I haven't seen either of those things before, I'd have to know more about what they're like.

So he sends, and explains, and describes, mining and quarrying.

Kobolds really do not do metalworking at all. He has to start from 'iron comes from rocks'.

I'll need to see what iron ore and the other rocks you want look like to my mage-sense, and there's a pretty good chance that that kind of spell would also get caves that are near them sometimes unless I can use 'has people around' as a factor, but I should be able to do that.

If we can find ones they aren't working at yet, maybe higher-quality ones far away, that'd be even better. 

That actually makes it easier. 'Open space near iron ore' should be really simple once I know what iron ore looks like.

I can ask them to fetch you some to look at.

Sure. And if there are any kinds of rocks that are especially similar but not what you want, those too, so I make sure to get the right thing.

All right. That'll be a tremendous help to them all by itself.

Good.

He starts fixing the rest of his hands.

She putters around taking care of chores for a while and then goes to the jungle to look for a suitable place to put the Eldar's portal; it takes a couple hours for her to settle on a nice cliff face.

He falls asleep again.

She jerky-ifies some more meat and goes for a walk around the lake and realizes that she could be spending this time getting closer to the elves' village so they can teleport to or past it and gets a few hours' progress made on that. It's nearly sunset when she returns.

He's awake and singing to himself again. All well?

Yup. Any news?

They can get you iron ore, and also stone of the kind they'd like to find quarries for. 

Sounds good. It's not 'they trust her' and she's not taking it as that, but it seems like a step in that direction and that's definitely nice.

They will go through portals to good sites for mining, if the Mithrim side of the portals is small enough that people can only squeeze through.