So he'll be motivated to learn! We can do it when you're not tired, though. Night!

She wakes before Miriel, of course.

Hello! We're feeding these fish, they're beautifully colored! How are you?

I'm okay. Did you still want to do smoke signals? How do you know he'll be looking? ...Isn't he not allowed out of the palace, are there windows somewhere I didn't see?

The roof is climbable. He's not allowed up there but I've seen him. Maybe we shouldn't encourage him but maybe we should.

But he can't be up there all the time, what if you make the signals and he's inside?

We can do it regularly, when we're tired of swimming and drawing and letters and singing and experiments.

I could also just go back to the palace now and let him know there might be something to see later.

Then he might ignore it out of sheer spite, someone says, but Rúmil says I expect he'd like that.

And is in Tirion. Convenient, Valar, when they're not terrifying.

It's not the day you said you'd come yet. Are you taking the books?

No. I said I'd come in a day or two and I've slept since then, I'm not really used to the trees thing but it feels like the next day to me. D'you want a lesson?

Do you want to teach me?

Sure.

I'm not bringing the books, I don't want you to take them away. Where are you?

Right this minute, I'm in the courtyard. The books do not belong to you, I'm just loaning them to you, but we can do the lesson without them if you'd rather leave them wherever you have them now.

I know you're allowed to take them away, that's why I'm not telling you where they are. He comes running into the courtyard.

"I'm not sure I follow your logic."

He tries in halting Pax, querying her for words when stuck. "If the books are mine I can - bring them everywhere, no one can take them. They're not mine so if I don't hide them they'll be taken away."

"...So you want to steal them?"

I don't want anyone to take them away.