"How long are you here for, because dunno if that's a sensible priority for you. Maybe after you've met everybody and talked with my you about what you're missing out on?"

"We're passing through; I was thinking we'd pause and look around for a bit at all the hops between here and Vanda Nossëo, then grab Elspeth, get spells from her, and go back to Warp and send her to talk to our Valar."

"So yeah, Fëanáro, you can pick up the language once you've got your computer."

"Is your father meetable now or is he shut up in his office?"

"He's working but I bet he'll want to meet his new alt."

"All right then - this way -"

And knock-knock and Fannar emerges and starts dumping everything he knows about idiolects on Fëanáro.

...cute. Boots laughs softly and talks Bell stuff with Iobel.

We're going to have to drag him away when we're ready to leave, Rúmil tells her.

It's probably less obviously untenable to leave him here than it would have been to leave him with Kib...

Iobel won't mind?

Iobel probably wouldn't have to do much? It looks like her father-in-law has it covered.

I suppose he did raise seven, and more recently than the Elf ones.

And reportedly one of them was just like him. If less so.

Does it feel good, to have managed to divert his disastrous history the hardest?

Yes. Yes it does.

And soon we'll have the Valar in a state to apologize for what they did to you.

Not really the most important of the results we're aiming at but that'd be nice.

It'd be a good sign on other fronts, and it's important to me.

Awww. Hug.

Hug. So, off to Space Arda? I'm wishing we were a space Arda, imagine how you'd have felt landing on that...

I might have exploded.

I suppose you couldn't have gotten as many accolades for ideas like 'glass' and 'the wheel'.

That too. I do think I get too much credit for glass and the wheel, though.

Squeeze. And not enough credit for everything else, so it all evens out.