They are working while they sing.

She looks for Findekáno.

He waves at her.

She heads over. There's snuggly clinging.

They're sending a letter with advice, and if you're attacked again they'll come help - I'm not giving them a way to teleport here unless you ask me to, I'll set something up so you can tell me to go get them. She taps one of her necklace stones indicatively.

Yeah, them coming here sounds more hindrance than help unless things get really bad.

She nods. I think they'd try not to be? I don't think they'd be very good at it. They aren't planning to, anyway. They don't think you'll be attacked again soon, they said.

Well, good to know. Better if we knew why they thought so.

It sounded like that's how things usually happen.

Okay. You doing a little better?

Nod.

I want to see about those spells I mentioned, but I should be okay to go hunting after lunch.

Okay. If you need to take a day off you can do that, too.

I am, mostly. It wouldn't be any better to just sit.

I have that feeling too. 

Yeah. Hug. Let me show you how these rocks work? They're weapons, I can teleport them places and they land like they've fallen a long way, I can set it up so you can direct them if you have an idea of where you'll want them...

Can we fire at Angband from here?

Probably. I can't guarantee I'd get it right without doing risky things with portals first, though.

I don't think it'd destroy the place anyway. Maybe worth saving for when you know more about your magic.

Yeah. In the meantime we have them for here, it's not like I can't make more. And - do you have ranged weapons, do you need supplies for making them? I can make portals you can shoot through, and the same portals will probably work fine for guards to watch through? I'm not really a fighter at all, I'm guessing at what'll be useful, but I can do those. And the spells to get injured people to safety.

We have bows and are not, now that we're off the ice, too short of supplies to make those. Portals to shoot through would be great.

Good. I'll need to know where they should let out... it might work best for me to cast on hides and you can build things to hold them wherever you want them?

Logistics ensues. She doesn't know much about how things should be set up, but she has a pretty good feel for how to work efficiently within that limitation.

And if she can cast on the inside walls of their tents then they have a very portable setup.

She can totally do that, though portability isn't really the main benefit of it, being able to shoot at things here when they aren't here any more won't be very useful. She can put new spells on the tents later, though, to shoot at other places.

Lunchtime approaches, and she takes a break from casting and retrieves some vegetables from her pantry to make lunch with.

They don't take a break. They're also still singing.

She can't skip meals, it's bad for her health. She'll explain this to anyone who asks, albeit not the part where it's more her mental health that'd suffer. She eats, and then takes a bowl of soup to Maitimo.

How is he?