"That sounds nice. Less - wheel-spinning - than sitting around all day, if there's people I could be healing -"

"Yeah. And the kids have picked up on - the feeling that we're just waiting here to die -"

"Yeah."

"So. Spring."

Nod.

Planning the travel is good for her; she is visibly more relaxed, she has marginally fewer nightmares. The girls perk up immensely at the promise of a trip.

That's good on both counts.

And in the spring they leave. ...Annie still can't ride a horse. Rirosseth would prefer her sister hold Annie, if that's all right for everyone.

That's fine.

It's a month of travel. There are orcs, sometimes, but in manageable numbers, and dispatched very efficiently out of view of the children. There are fewer orcs as they head farther south. 

Annie is sad about the orcs but it would be so bad if one wound up in love with one they couldn't go catch -

Yep. And they can't even teleport them, they might have contingency orders to cause havoc.

...well, at least the total unfeasibility of deoathing the orcs mean that Lírnith's expertise on what's good to tell her sister about can continue to be abided by without any competing considerations?

Yay. 

Eventually they find a paved stone road. "Now, inconveniently, the thing to do is ride back and forth until they decide whether to send anyone to say hello."

"The riding back and forth part is important?"

"We want to make sure they've seen us. Once they have we can settle in somewhere and wait."

"Okay."

Healing factor means not being really sore from all this sitting on a horse.

That's good. They make sure they have been seen and then settle down and efficiently and quietly make a camp. The one problem with living like this is is that everyone is in human-earshot range all the time.

And while putting Annie in a soundproof room works putting earplugs in her ears does not. She is okay with people trying singing while she's asleep in case it doesn't wake her?

They try that.

nope she wakes up please stop

she is very sorry about that

It's okay. (She goes away outside human hearing range and sings. All Elves need to sing but she in particular will go crazy really fast without music.)

Annie is very apologetic. Hopefully the Dwarves will send somebody out soon.

They do! Dwarves are short and bearded and armored and the Elves welcome them and find that this set doesn't speak any Thindarin but does speak a trading language with which Rirosseth has passing familiarity.

Annie can translate too. And hand that out if it's convenient.