"Thank you."

"Of course!"

And he takes the presents back through the portal.

He is back the next day.

Faervel is not around! Nor is anyone else he might recognize. There's a sign up next to the portal. A small child playing in a fountain looks over at him curiously. 

He can't read the sign, but he does look at it. He waves nervously at the small child.

Small child looks back at him consideringly and then hops down from the fountain and walks towards him.

Aaaaaaaaaa he doesn't move.

Small child walks right up to him and curiously pokes the portal.

"Ah - I don't - I think -"

Small child chatters at him in the local language!

"I don't speak that but I think you should maybe - not -"

The kid does not seem to understand him. Portal poke?

"Is there anyone around - Faervel?!"

The child pats a stairwell in the red district. There are some not-Faervel people around, and one of them starts in his direction.

Nelen winces at the child, looks helplessly at the approaching Elf.

Child creeps curiously forward. 

"Are you okay?" says approaching Elf, and then something in the Elf language at the child.

"I think the child should not go in the portal!"

Child reluctantly extracts himself from the portal. 

Nelen relaxes, mostly. "Thank you."

"Of course!" says the adult, beckoning the child. "They're not supposed to do that."

Nod.

Child does not want to come and grabs Nelen's leg instead, still chattering excitedly.

Nelen starts shaking and bursts into tears!

...so does the kid. 

He tries to pull his leg away.