"Well, he scares me."

"You don't have to. But don't you want to know if you're staying here?"

"I don't have anything to pack. I guess I'd miss you but that doesn't change depending on how long it is."

"Do you mind if I ask him?"

"Uh. I guess you can."

"I won't if you don't want me to."

"He'll probably just answer you and not come be scary, right?"

"If you don't want him to visit I'm sure he won't."

"Then yeah, go ahead."

"Okay, I asked a soldier I know to ask him."

"Thanks."

"I feel bad for saying Lord Maedhros is mad, because I don't - I shouldn't have."

"You don't what?"

"I don't want you to think poorly of him. People here know that about him but they also know lots and lots of other things."

"...not sure I follow."

"Hmmm. It's not that it's false that Lord Maedhros is mad but if it's one of the only things you know about him then...your impression of him will be false?"

"I also know that he is scary. And magic. And really really tall?"

"I shouldn't have said it."

"Okay."

"And I should go, probably."

"Okay. Thanks for translating the submarine stuff and for showing me the garden."

"Yeah! We can do a game tomorrow."

"Okay! See you tomorrow!"

He gets accustomed to the magic. He hates it, but he learns it. He finds a location from which he can watch Qiri without being seen; it's easy, as humans have terrible eyesight. Qiri will be keeping track of the magic, and will be reassured that he's half a mile away.

He tries to see if he can see the thing Qiri saw, the shape of the magic that the two of them could do.

The magic moves strangely, with an additional dimension of freedom and through things even when it's not lifted in that direction (though it does not go through itself, and presumably not other magic, except in a few wispy corners that seem extra insubstantial). Qiri moves his, sometimes, not for balance or to avoid bits of it falling asleep because neither apply, but for comfort, like rolling over onto the cool side of a pillow or brushing one's hair out of one's face.

In much the same way that one who has had fingers and ears for a while can guess without trying it what would happen if one stuck one's fingers in one's ears, the magics themselves have affordances for interaction described by their elaborate shapes and the locations of their extra-insubstantial wispy parts and these can be sussed out, at least in general terms, without trial and error. But instead of having physical consequences, magic has magical consequences. In general terms, these too can be guessed in advance.

Also, the most compact Maedhros's magic-shape can get leaves thin flat gaps. Qiri's magic, having thin flat parts, could fit into those, and there would not be any good way to get him to cut it out short of sufficient physical distance; opening the shape would just make getting at it easier.