She laughs. "This is true!"

There's one about the seasons and one about the constellations that are visible from Yahi. There's a mostly incomprehensible one that she's pretty sure is supposed to be describing some kind of weird dream someone is having, but it's sort of unclear. There's one where you're supposed to keep adding verses until the baby is asleep, all of them about a girl fetching objects for the increasingly confusing project her master is working on. There's one about a ship that stops working and hurtles through space forever. There are several with the basic theme that sleep is an escape from the hard work of the day, and you really should probably try sleeping, baby, it's actually not that terrible.

"Awwww. Those are very sweet. Though sort of sad."

"Yeah. I think a lot of lullabies are sort of sad, because - sometimes it's hard to be happy, when you're a new parent? Because you love your child, I think almost everyone loves their child, but it's a lot of extra work and you didn't get any say in taking it on, and you sort of know the baby's going to grow up and live a life that's in no way particularly better than your own. But I think the point of a lot of them is to, like, acknowledge that sadness and then point out that you still have someone here who's going to snuggle you tonight, and that's - something, anyway?"

" - I suppose. What a - monstrous bunch of people. I hope someday they understand what they did."

She smiles. Not particularly happily, but sincerely. "Yeah. I suppose they probably don't understand, do they. I'm not sure I have a good sense of which things they've done to us were really terrible, even, but I hope I get to - figure out how to live decently, I guess, after all of this. If that's possible." She sighs. "And I guess I hope they do, too."

"I can't imagine they understand because if they understood - how could they? But maybe they are just all very evil."

"I don't think they're all the same. And they're definitely not all equally to blame for the decisions that get made, in terms of decision-making power. But it sounds like a really complex question, figuring out exactly how culpable all of the Alteri are for the things they're doing."

"They'll have lots of time to figure it out afterwards, hopefully. If all goes well."

"Yeah. I hope we all get to figure a lot of stuff out."

She continues trying her best to learn Quenya. It's good to have goals that she feels like she actually has the power to reach.

Ettelië will assist her in this for as long as she wants.

Eventually her brain gets tired. Darn brains, not being able to do arbitrary tasks for literally infinite amounts of time.

"OK, I think that's all I can do today. I wish I could think of something else useful to do, but I have no idea what that would be. We may have no choice but to explore the flying game again," she says solemnly.

Ettelië giggles. "Of course! I reserved the room for us."

Aww. He is so good. The flying game is also really good, though really not in the same league as Ettelië.

She follows him to the room and waits for him to set up the game again.

And then she can find herself on the beach where they ended yesterday.

"OK! So we've seen the beach and parts of the desert. Any other particularly interesting places? I guess we could just fly around and see if we can find any interesting places, but if you know of any cool places in particular - ?"

"I looked up the game records after we played yesterday! There's a underground cave system, supposedly, and a forest and of course the mountains and a savanna with big grazing animals..."

She looks delighted about most of this, but especially about the last thing. "Oh, cool! I haven't really gotten to see that many different animals? I mean, those all sound really cool, but maybe the savanna first?"

"I think -" he squints - "that way."

She smiles and takes off. She doesn't race ahead this time, partly because she doesn't know exactly where she's going and partly because she kind of likes the idea of traveling at the same pace as Ettelië.

While she is flying she gets a notification that she can improve her wings if she'd like! They've noticed the following things about her flight patterns and recommend the following wing changes.

Huh! This is interesting. She would like to accept new and improved wings, yes.

Her wings get shinier and more elaborate and handle a little better when she flaps her arms!

Yay shiny wings!

She takes note of the landscape below them as she flies, taking in what different environments look like from the air.

Forests are oh so very green, and take strange, nearly geometrical shapes bounded by rivers and rock formations. They're not actually high enough in the air to be looking down on the mountains. A while after they start flying, a second sun rises over the ocean.

Oooh, cool, binary stars. 

"Oh! In terms of figuring out which star systems are in the network, I don't have them all memorized, but binary star systems definitely aren't. I'm not a physicist or anything, I don't know the specifics, but having multiple major centers of gravity in the same system messes with the transit system. Just, in case that's helpful to know."