No but I'm magicked.

I think enough centuries of someone repeatedly sacrificing their wellbeing and happiness for your sake and caring about you and making you feel loved and valued does - something similar, for a lot of people. 

Oh.

Shouldn't, but does. She was - magical, back when she was in one piece. 

I believe it.

Anyway. Let's not tell her just yet.

Okay.

The girls get fluent with sign language. They ask Annie more questions. They sometimes warily ask the Elves questions. Rirosseth gives off every impression of being an ordinary centuries-old warlord in a dying world who is not insane or oathed at all. She sometimes tries to smile at Annie but she's not very convincing.

She doesn't have to be all that convincing to "look" like she's really smiling, to Annie, but Annie is not especially easily fooled about intent.

The fact that there exists intent-to-make-Annie-experience-being-smiled-at is still something though.

Annie shows up when Rirosseth makes it known that she can be nearby and otherwise gives her about a hundred yards' berth and she looks after the kids.

Who eventually ask her - "why are you here?"

"I had a magical accident. It did a bunch of things and one of them was send me to this world. I don't have anywhere in particular in the world I want to be that isn't here, so I'm here."

Nods. "Do you like it here?"

"I miss a lot of things about my world but I can't send myself back."

"Oh. 

What things do you miss?"

"Well, my world doesn't have an Enemy, so that's nice. And it has better technology than here by a whole lot. And I miss some people."

"I miss Sirion. It was nicer than here."

"I wasn't there long enough to know what was nice about it."

"There were a lot more people and they were less - despairing. They kept thinking they might find Valinor in time."

"Find it?"

"When the Valar got mad at grandpappa and his family they surrounded Valinor with enchanted islands so no one can reach it with boats. Everyone's been trying since before Mother was born - that's how grandpappa and grandmamma met - to get past the enchanted islands and beg the Valar for help."

"Sounds like the Valar made that really hard, which might mean they won't help even if somebody asked."

"Oh."

"Well," Eliel says, "people thought they might so people were happier than here."

"It is pretty somber around here."

"Because everybody's going to die. And we're half-Elves so no one even knows what happens when we do."

"That sounds especially scary."