And with progress on getting the Enemy properly dead this time underway!

Good.  Assuming they are restrained from using it against anyone else.

Yes, assuming that.

Anyway, nice to meet you. You can follow my flowers - the white ones - if you're looking for me.

Elspeth has golden lunaria. Thanks. When I wake up I will want breakfast, is it okay to hunt in here?

It's not against any rules but you won't find anything bigger than songbirds. And you might scare people.

Songbirds aren't really worth it unless there's nothing else, she usually doesn't take birds smaller than pigeons. She can eat regular food too, won't do her any harm, where does she find that?

That Lúthien can show her. Look, here are the gardens.

Do they have anything less... vegan. Elspeth can live on this but... still.

"We're under siege. Did you miss that bit?"

She was sort of hoping there might also be a besieged chicken farm. It's fine, she can live on plants.

I bet my mom can do something. I'll ask.

Thanks.

Her mom can make bushes that produce berries that have something chemically identical to animal blood, it'll just take her a little while.

That's very nice of her! Elspeth appreciates it.

We appreciate that we're not in the middle of a war! I'm not imagining the King is very nice to his defeated enemies.

He might actually be the model of restraint when he doesn't happen to want them as mind-controlled sex slaves, Elspeth doesn't know!

And to be perfectly fair to him and his stupid punchable face he has only ever seemed to want the one and is very particular about having him to the point of swearing dumb mind-altering oaths.

Yes, he says rather fervently.

She's within a few hundred miles; he's been getting a lovely tour of Menegroth.

She'd been wondering if he was going to comment!

I was distracted.

If you want, though, I can have Findekano send you his memories of when I acquired him. He sends them to me sometimes because I find them very soothing.

Elspeth doubts she will find them soothing and cannot begin to fathom why Maitimo would suggest such a thing while still within range of precisely calibrated hatred estimates since there's no obvious benefit to her having them. Neither is there any from Findekáno's perspective.

Curiosity about what kind of information about me your hatred is responsive to.

Well, it's not like her head is currently a precisely curated museum of delight, so if Findekáno wants her to have it for some reason...