"Not on the menu."

"Healing."

"None of my spells are on the menu, sorry."

"This is the same problem you've got with Sauron, sweetheart. Your idea of 'trade' is 'you give me something, I don't give you anything'."

"I'd be happy to give you the healing spell if it were just that but it's intransmissible without the principles used to create it."

"So what are you willing to offer?"

"Maybe I don't have anything you want," sighs Loki. "Just thought it was worth asking."

"You're getting stronger. It's obvious to everyone. You're opposed to everyone else getting stronger. That - makes strategic sense, I suppose, but it does not come across as friendly."

"I've managed to make a surprising number of friends this way."

"Great. Go ask one of them to watch your city."

Well, they'll build her a city.

She can't defend it for the foreseeable future, so not this year, thank you.

The Men are in any event getting on better in the Elven one. By decree of the King everyone has now learned their language at least well enough to communicate.

That's nice of the King and his linguistics hobby. Oh, when should she be expecting to produce Asgardian lessons?

He's going to take another week out of sped-up time this winter once he has non-cross-dimensional retroactive eidetic memory without limits.

All right, she will have an alphabet and sentence patterns and science-biased vocabulary written up by then.

...If he's not going to ask her to tell the Men not to grab him she will not do so. She congratulates successful magically singing Men. She will happily make recordings for them to learn from without having to monopolize (precious, Quendi) time to study the notes.

The Quendi are at least making good use of their precious time! They're exporting absurd quantities of magical jewelry and tokens to Tumunzahar in exchange for metals, which they're making into enchanted armor. They've made Loki new armor and Curufinwë has an idea for a project that would let armor automatically heal if her healing spells can be symbolically written into the metal somehow. The gardens are now self-watering, the stores are well-stocked, and rations now include things like cinnamon and coffee beans.

...Loki can write down her spells but they are very long and the writing does not normally have any magical properties...

Engraving it won't do it, but there really ought to be some way to combine their magics for this. Does she have a very short useless spell that they could use to try a hundred different approaches without wasting years of time?

The tiniest piece of spell that does anything at all is still really long, but less so. Will a smidgen of illusion spell - the part that does silence - do, or does it need to be something without a finer-grained will-based targeting interface like a fraction of healing (broken bones is pretty short but, uh, to see if it works someone would need to have a broken bone; there are other less short subsets)?

Probably better not to try to do will-targeting first; how about a fraction of healing that doesn't require testers to break their bones?

A bit that will do small cuts is merely "several thick books" amounts of long.