She doesn't intrude. She goes and falls some rocks, instead, in case they need weapons later.

They sing all night.

She sleeps, eventually, tucked in between some rocks with an arrowproofed blanket for cover. In the morning she looks for Findekáno again.

He's still singing. Hi.

Hi.

Hugging: yes. Clinging: also yes.

You okay? Is something wrong?

If that had been you I would really not be okay right now.

Maitimo'd rise to the occasion. You should probably have lots of friends; war means we're all taking a lot of chances.

She clings harder and whimpers quietly.

You're right, she's very quiet, but.

It's okay. He's not gone forever. He's in Mandos and someday Mandos will forgive us.

She hugs him tighter. Yeah.

What do you need right now?

Being here, mostly, for now. There are more spells I can do but they're more complicated and I'll need help with them - spell to move injured people to where they can be helped might be the most important, I don't know what you need 'injured' to mean but probably someone can show me. I'll have to cast that on each person individually and it'll have to be re-done when you move, though.

Okay. We've pretty much got to everyone, but thank you.

I mean in case it happens again.

Yeah. We should ask the other host what to expect.

Yeah. She considers, starts trembling again just slightly. Politics, though.

The orcs aren't my cousins' fault.

Right. But they won't like being asked to help you, I think. And - we want a second mage sooner rather than later, we might be able to get rid of the Enemy quickly if the magic detection form works the way I'm hoping; we - Maitimo and I - think you'd be a good choice for that; it will upset them, and not getting their way about who gets to learn magic afterward will upset them more, and I'm not sure how far they can be pushed before we start having worse problems than just them being upset. And me or Maitimo acting on your behalf to them will make it harder for us to work with them neutrally about that later. Or I could just, pick a side - increased leaning suggests that this is at least tempting - but then Maitimo might not end up with what they need, I don't think the other Fëanoreans are going to be very good at that.

That's not the main consideration, I don't think. The bigger problem is that I don't know if we can win the war without them, and you're right that they'll react badly to not getting to learn things that other people are learning.

She nods. We need an Elda mage to get more spell forms; we don't need more than one, for that. I think that'll help at least a little, that it's not really people in general learning things. But you're right.

If it's just me and I don't use it to try to reunite the Noldor it might go over okay.

Okay enough, yeah, or Maitimo wouldn't've suggested it. But I don't know how asking them to help you now might affect the situation there. We should ask them, maybe.

You should ask them. If I were inclined to take Maitimo as King then I think they'd calm down entirely. But. I am not.

Yeah. Let me run that by Maitimo and if they don't think it'll be a disaster I'll go.