First instinct is to have Lári visit him - I can't imagine she wouldn't have featured unpleasantly too like, oh, literally everyone else he knows, but the Enemy may not know what she looks like at this age, that might help - kind of a lot to put on a little kid though.

I get the sense he'll act perfectly normal if he thinks that's what's helpful. Sure the golem could stop him in time if -

It is faster than him, and it will stop her before she gets close enough to try to climb in his lap or anything. Assuming he doesn't tell it to let her; I can tighten that up.

Probably.

I would just rather be paranoid than have another 'we knew the Enemy could do illusions' moment -

Yep.

I don't really know if interacting with a small child will meet his social needs but it's almost certainly better than nothing at all.

Inconveniently this particular small child is an obvious target if he's rigged to attack. I'd trust the golem but she might still be freaked out...

We could find some Elven small children. 

Don't have the convenient 'don't look the same as they did two years ago' feature.

Yeah. 

Well, he should now feel safe around everyone but you, right?

Even without breaking the scenario logic, no, not necessarily.

I'm not sure I follow.

Shrug. Somebody breaks the golem. Somebody coerces him somehow into telling it to let them closer. Someone does something he would not want to witness and doesn't have to touch him at all. Even if this hasn't happened exactly this way to him before he's got a good enough imagination.

Okay. 

I suppose he did not exactly volunteer what would convince him this one was real...

Of course not.

We've got some Mithrim Sindar who've joined since he - since he left -

That might be better.

I don't suppose there's any safe way to ask them if I can borrow their eyes while they do -

All the golem-related excuses I can come up with seem really flimsy too.

I just want to see him. I am not going to do it if it hurts him but it will tear me apart if our last interaction in person is - was - the rescue - I was entirely focused on getting back safely with him, I couldn't consider his feelings at all or I'd have fallen apart entirely -

Kib squeezes him.

He was lucid and so - patient with me, I don't know if it would have made things better or worse if I'd tried to say anything - 

I don't know either. I should've let you borrow my eyes, I wasn't thinking.

And I was thinking I'd get my turn. Don't worry about it. He squeezes him. Surely someday eventually he'll decide it couldn't be worth it for the Enemy to drag a hallucination out that long - they don't have to happen in real time, but still -

Might be a long wait.