This was a success. We just drove a Vala out of his domain by being impolite. Even with having to convince the Fëanorians not to take a risk, it's a win.

Yes, it is that. We should have a festival. I'll suggest it.

Might have to invent a pretext, but it's not like we didn't earn one.

We put in long hours for it.

Very. I'd suggest trying to point it at Sauron now that Moringotto's out, or any other important minions whose names we know, but to be honest I'd rather just take the win.

We can consider whether it's safe to do that later.

Yeah. I'm not sure how much of my not wanting to do that is actual reasons and how much is just wanting to be done. Later sounds good.

And he returns to announce and plan the festival.

Amber warns the Fëanorians. The Enemy left Angband, it's probably to see if anyone chases him, if it looks like the Silmarils moved north that's why, and charging after either him or them is almost as risky as it usually is. She stays for as short a duration as she can.

Yep, they noticed, weren't planning on it, bye.

Good.

On the way out she checks for the Fëanorian-to-Angband connections to see whether they did move north.

Yep.

Assuming no one figured out how to fake that, of course. Still, good to know.

They throw a festival. It's lovely. It lasts three weeks and involves lots of singing.

Neither the singing nor the loveliness was a surprise. Three weeks? Three Elf weeks. Impressive.

It's how long festivals lasted in Valinor. And everyone needs a break.

Very true. And it makes sense different species would have different frames of reference for that.

The Enemy's on your time scale, right?

Valar are usually slower. 

I was just picturing the idea of holding a festival for what turns out to be a strategically critical amount of time. Unlikely, but still.

We decided not to pursue him; what else could we be doing?

Doing the same to subordinates who may or may not be practitioners, working toward building our refuge city, maybe even brainstorming ways to weaken Angband while he's gone. There's always something.

We can do most of those things during a festival. 

Probably shouldn't implement the attacking Angband one, but that's just for general 'don't attack Angband' reasons not anything specific to now.

I have people occasionally checking whether he's still out of range. He is.

Hopefully taking advantage of the Vala capacity for twiddling thumbs.