I kind of had. There's a touch of amusement in her voice.

Well, I knew that this was a hallucination by the Enemy and he wasn't going to give me several months in which to recover physically and emotionally.

Sigh.

You can just not be involved, if you don't want to be. I can keep working with the other host, I can probably do enough for them on my own.

I don't think you can. I appreciate the offer, though.

I'm almost tempted to go ask them if the have any ideas. I don't get the impression that Eldar work that way, though.

Work what way?

If this was kobolds, each tribe's Speaker and chief would go sit together and work it out, and both sides would be able to suggest things - it all goes through the Speakers and we all work together well enough to avoid making problems worse, at least most of the time. We don't usually have problems this bad, though, but even if we did I expect Speakers' usual habit of taking other peoples' perspectives strongly into account would help a lot.

We also don't usually have problems this bad, and have a similar procedure for resolving them, but the people who would be most able to work together to fix them are, well, me, and I don't want to give the Enemy that level of understanding of how we operate.

Understandable.

Might be worth it for me to go, then. If I'm going to be telling them about the situation anyway.

Sure.

Please don't tell them that I'm fighting with my brothers over the situation, that'll make everything worse.

All right. Is 'you want to give them their things back but you aren't in a position to do it yet because you're still recovering' okay?

Yes. And our profound apologies, not that that'll help any.

Mmhmm.

Anything else? Questions for them, answers to questions they're likely to have?

Not that the Enemy wouldn't benefit from.

Okay. Need anything before I go?

I don't. Thank you for giving them the food.

No problem.

She appears at the outskirts of the host on the ice again, a little while later. It's me again. Is - image of Findekáno - busy?

He finds her. May I speak with our people you sent to another world?

Sure. We can go there, if you'd like, or I can go ask them to come back.

Why don't you bring them back.

All right. It might take me a little while to find them if they've gone outside osanwe range.

I doubt that they would have done so; they would scarcely have had enough time.

Okay. I am still picking up basic things like that, my world doesn't have osanwe and I've known about this world for maybe ten days. Anyway, I'll be right back. She disappears.

Hello?

Yes?

Image of Findekáno - would like to talk to you. I can come to you if you have things you'd like to bring back, rather than hauling them here.