Thanks. He hugs her.

She hugs him back, very tightly, and disappears.

The very first thing she does, when she gets to the cave, is make another necklace; the sound of singing can be heard faintly from it. Then she goes to sit by Maitimo.

He hugs her, again. He cannot conceal that this is costly but he can pretty much conceal how costly. How is he?

Coping. She sends the memory of Findekáno sitting with his family, and then a few snatches of the song-illusions and a brief view of the lit pyre.

He nods. So not a good time for magic?

Could happen. Politics, first. They'd like me to go ask your siblings about how orcs usually do things, I'm not sure that's not a disaster. I'm not sure it's not a disaster to not, either, though.

I am sure that won't be a disaster.

Okay. Thank you. I'll be back with lunch, then. - would you like a sound portal, I don't know where Findekáno's tent is yet but you could have one for the camp.

I think that would bother them. 

She nods. I'll keep you updated, then, and she disappears.

"Hey."

"Hey." Orcs attacked the other host yesterday.

They really should have stayed in Valinor where they were safe. Do we need to go ride up and help - or you could teleport us out to help, I guess -

I can ask if they'd like you to. Right now they just want to know what they should expect - I've got defenses set up, but.

Yeah, sure. We had to take the whole continent back when we arrived. Someone can write something up for them - weapons, tactics, hiding places....

That'll help, thank you. She relaxes considerably. How long do you think that will take?

Depends how much detail they want, but I'll put someone on it who writes fast. If the fighting's over then they probably won't get attacked again really soon or anything.

Okay. Good. That's important. And now she hugs him.

Did they tell you to expect we'd, like, let orcs kill them?

No. I didn't ask. I just hadn't seen you be nice to them at all, before. It's a rather clingy hug.

When they weren't trying to kill my father they're just fine. And now he's dead so they got what they wanted so maybe they'll be fine forever, who knows.

Mm. Clinging. I don't know much about that, but I'm sorry it happened. And they're - they want their things back, they want an apology, they want - well - you said they should have stayed in Valinor, I think they think you should have known they weren't going to do that, and what would happen instead. But they don't expect those things, and they don't want to fight. They want to work together, or at least Findekáno does, and their parent, too, as far as I know.

Of course we thought they'd stay in Valinor. It was completely insane to do otherwise. 

I think I agree. But they're still upset about it.

Course they are. Losing someone isn't less awful if you knew it was going to happen and know it could have been avoided.