They try three on one with a fixed sword, and six on one without, and everyone has a lovely afternoon and to their annoyance can't scratch Loki.

Excellent. She gives everyone suggestions and goes back in the hole.

They finish the early warning system. They start on another one for the other city. They even grudgingly set a production schedule that'll let them make one for Doriath.

That's very magnanimous of them.

I'm sure there are people within Doriath who do not deserved to be flattened by a city-leveling bomb, is Fëanor's comment on that.

It's true.

Maitimo's there.

And they've had children born there in recent memory and so on.

There are Dwarves there, too. Dwarves are lovely.

The ones in Doriath are not quite as friendly as the others I've met, but yes, Dwarves are really great.

Would living in Doriath make you inclined towards friendliness towards Elves?

They weren't as friendly to me either. They did like me all right once I gave them a metallurgy lecture but managed to neglect the part where information's the kind of thing you pay for if you're a Dwarf.

You can ask Maitimo to teach the Dwarves manners while he's there, he probably doesn't have enough to do.

I'll tell him you said that.

You spent quite a while with him and haven't mentioned much. I can't tell if that's him being circumspect with you or you being circumspect with me.

Some of both and some there's not all that much to say. I recorded him singing at a mountain because I was there anyway and it didn't cost out-of-the-hole time like soliciting from Maglor. Aerobatics are fun. He mentioned you're going to get him an inextricable eidetic memory so he can have teleportation stuck on really thoroughly.

I really like it when interpersonal problems have technological fixes, and that seems to be one.

I approve entirely.

He spends his breaks flying and singing?

She does not say "and snuggling his boyfriend with progressively fewer obstacles". Yeah.

I'd generally find that worrying but I suppose perhaps he has friends in Menegroth.

As far as I can tell he's charming the socks off everybody he meets, in more or less time depending.

He thinks I don't bother but I actually couldn't replicate that.

It's really impressive!

Thank you for checking in on him nonetheless. Friends one needs for political ends aren't the same as people you can actually let down your guard around.