Bella doesn't think the current teleportation design will actually carry a whole ship, even a smallish ship, and presumably if it's impounded it can't take off from where it is.

Oh, right. Well, they'll also want a larger cargo teleport for rescuing people from Materia, people would probably like to have their houses.

They probably would! Also they could steal a library. This would not be very nice of them but then they would have a library.

Fëanáro bounces. When he calms down he argues this would be very nice of them, they will appreciate the knowledge in the library better here than in Materia because here they can test it.

...That is not what nice means. They should probably replace the library with something like a library of Warp music on a crystal ball or something as compensation.

...T'Mir is confused.

"That's very weird," says T'Mir. "Music is not normally magical here."

"It might be a Quendi thing," Rúmil says. "You could try to learn it, but I don't think that should be our top priority."

"Wizardry seems like lower-hanging fruit, I'm not very musical unless you count humming along to things while there's miles of vacuum between me and the nearest lifesign."

"And wizardry's a lot more flexible and a lot faster-acting." He nods. "Still, it's good that music works; it doesn't have a mana limit."

"Would recordings work?"

"...recordings?"

"This might actually be the same question as whether illusion sound of magical music would work but I don't know if anybody got around to testing that, I never invented a longer-duration spell than that and you need a lot of practice to push the cantrip version long enough..."

"Machines can be - shown a song, once, and then play it just the same as many times as you like. I listened to music a lot in my ship but I wasn't producing much of it."

"That sounds like it should be at the top of the experimental priority list. And no, Bella, I don't think anyone did get it working long enough to test."

"Well, the Prometheus can record and play back sound."

"And how are we retrieving her? Improved teleport?"

"I think that's the going plan."

That one will take a fair bit of work. Fëanáro learns the language and then races around labelling everything in the local alphabet, and tells the story of how they did that to make Tirion literate.

That's a cute idea. At some point she should teach him Vulcan, she's fluent.

He'd love to learn Vulcan! He wants to speak hundreds of languages. He will probably need to invent memory magic to remember them all.

...That would probably be necessary, yes.

Might not be. The Quendi aren't supposed to forget their lives in five Ages, are they? But it might be, so he'll invent it.