"The patterns of typical suns and moons are comparable to one another, though not identical; usually though there are times when the moon is visible during the day, or not so at night, etcetera."
"I know nothing about the tactics of orcs or the lay of the land, but I can turn them invisible when we're close enough that being unable to see their feet and each other will be less of a hazard. Maybe send illusions of some of them with you, although I can only operate perhaps a hundred of those at a time and I don't know how convincing they'll be to elf-quality eyes, not being designed for same."
"I can see a color that is past blue. I cannot see colors further past that. And I can't see heat at all."
"Well, I'm sure I haven't seen your world at its best and can't comment on how interesting it usually is."
"Were they contributing that much to your day to day entertainment?"
"Yes. They made everything they touched beautiful, and being around beautiful things is a great source of joy to our people. And they gave us more energy, made us better able to use our wills to shape the world, so enabled every other endeavor. And our cities, our artwork, our architecture, was all designed around the light of the Trees, to do interesting and novel things with it. We are a people who care about beauty more than anything, and we'd have an Age to build places that expressed every possible conception of beauty."
She makes a copy of the capital of Asgard as seen from the air by a little bird.
The vision stops. "After the Darkening it was lit by torches everywhere and it was like a strange place anyway. We were desperate to leave."
They reach land before the Sun sets. Findekáno can hear all the scouts, even the ones who are now quite far out, and reports everything they see and share. "There's one major river on this side of the continent, and the cousins are camping at a lake in the mountains near its source. They know we're here by now, if they didn't already; we've seen one of their scouting parties. Our scouting parties have orders not to raise weapons against them even in self-defense, but the one we saw left immediately. No sight of the Enemy yet, except the cloud concealing a section of the northern mountains." He bites his lip. "Setting up south of them on the river seems unwise."
"I can turn people into birds. Unfortunately, learning to fly is time-consuming and I can't see as well as you can, but I could look for another river."
And she turns into a swift in midair and ascends.