Maitimo works all night again.

How worried about him should I be? In terms of how he's coping now not in terms of later swordsmanship, Kib remarks to Findekáno.

Workaholic moping runs in the family. I think he is very unhappy but I do not think there is any particular undesirable outcome, other than that, you need to be afraid of.

...I mean, that's not good either.

I would rather find the power necessary to not need to stop him. 'Stopping him' is way too late to suit me.

He thinks one explanation is that events had somehow escalated such that there was going to be a war and he could not prevent it and he decided it was better for him to run it.

Then we stop things from escalating before that point.

Yup.

Sigh.

Nerdanel stops by that afternoon. "Akibel? We met briefly when you came by our house for dinner."

"Yes, I remember you, you're the sculptor - hi!"

"Maitimo told us last night that you may be able to change the story written into the music of creation."

"It seems likely. I can hear and relay what seem to be arbitrary prophecies and do not personally feature in what is known of the plan."

"My youngest son dies in a fire. I think Fëanáro lights it. I know the two of them are at odds but I do not know if it is deliberate. I have told Fëanáro and he was able to hear it fine, but thinks prophetic dreams are illogical nonsense; I told my son and he couldn't hear it at all."

"Telufinwë. Did Maitimo tell you I gave them the same mothername? I did, but only because he got a prophetic mothername. it's 'Umbarto', 'Fated'. We can't do that to a child."

Nod.

"I have given up on convincing Fëanáro that the dreams are prophetic because if I were able to convince him then I wouldn't have been able to tell him. I think."

"Presumably. Shouldn't stop me - why does he think prophetic dreams are nonsense...?"

"I think he has a hard time believing he would light his son on fire. Understandably. And he thinks that the Valar overstate fate and their own knowledge."

"I'm accumulating a disproportionate number of prophecies that will be relevant to him, I just can't pinpoint exactly what thing or things he needs to not do yet so I haven't brought them over."

"I'd expect that no one has dreams which are specific enough to specify a thing he needs to not do, they could just tell him."

"Yeah, I'm hoping it'll be clearer when I have lots of them to put together. It's so far vague and apparently unrelated unpleasantness."

"The other reason he dislikes prophetic dreams is because it feels to him like lots of people intensely dislike and mistrust him for no reason."