They are not sure what to make of that but they think they are flattered. "Tumunzahar," someone says.

She nods. "The name? Or the word for the kind?"

Tumunzahar is this one; there are six other great Dwarven cities under mountains.

Cool. More language acquisition?

After a while the Dwarves indicate that they would like to exchange things, do Imliss and Idaia have things to exchange?

...Do Dwarves have the printing press?

...fluency is not at the level that would communicate that yet.

Is fluency at a level that an communicated "conjure temporary objects" or "turn into fuckoff-huge wolves" yet?

They can conjure some objects! The Dwarves will be suitably impressed.

Can it be impressed on the Dwarves that the objects are always temporary? It probably can.

Yep, after the objects vanish a few times they have the idea. There's still a bit too much of a language barrier for the twins to follow when the Dwarves talk about exciting applications.

That's a pity! Exciting applications are probably exciting.

They are asked if they can show artwork or inventions with the temporary conjuring.

Some! Not a lot, the conjuring isn't totally arbitrary, but some! Like the printing press, she had multiple dreams about printing presses while she was working with the Noldor engineers on recreating them.

They are pretty astonished by and excited about printing presses.

This is because printing presses are excellent!

And people are happy to get them food and a place to stay! What do they eat?

They just crossed a desert. They will be thrilled to eat and drink any things that will not poison them.

They are served great quantities of non-poisonous food.

They will eat it in quantities that won't make them sick!

And here is a pretty rock enclave where they can sleep!

Awesome.

That night Idaia curls up, in complete material security and on an actual fucking mattress for the first time in a very long time indeed and lets herself dwell.

She misses her husband very badly. And--she doesn't know that it was only a short time between dying and waking up, who knows how long it was--

What if he died--

What if he didn't and he's conscious and--maybe if she just reaches out--

Idaia?

Oh god, oh god - how -

Oh, dearheart--are you okay--Imliss and I woke up with the first native Men.