Brilliant? Thinks about ideas more that people, and tends to be most comfortable around people who are near as brilliant as she is, and very very ambitious and driven and disinclined to take most of the world seriously in deciding what she ought to care about, and very inclined to pick fights with gods, and not much less inclined to pick fights with anyone else...

Are the lessons 'maybe don't pick so many fights with gods'?

That, and 'collaborate' and 'listen to your advisors' and 'seriously consider and prepare for worst-case scenarios' and 'don't do bad things even when they seem necessary; the gods will turn against you and that's worse than what you were trying to prevent'.

Nod.

And 'family can't be your highest priority' and 'sometimes people abandon you and that's okay' and 'you can have a working relationship with people even if they aren't very nice, the world won't end' - 

...probably good things to be able to cope with.

My mother had a very dysfunctional childhood, and also there hadn't been any wars in history to pick up lessons from. Those advantages alone would give my niece quite the edge as a functional person.

Nod.

You okay?

Yeah.

I love you so much and I'd be so happy you were here if only you were safe here.

I love you too. Maybe we'll figure something out. Or someone will come back from another world, or something.

Yeah. Oh, it's probably safe to tell Dwarves that's an option.

Okay.

So she does.

There aren't many Dwarves who want to try teleporting out of the dimension but some that are nearing death of old age or similar are willing to try it, either for the novelty or in the case that someone is able to track back to this world from here. A few more dimensional scouts go out.

And presumably being Dwarves they will pay for the privilege. It's really very convenient being rich.

She is very rich. They've gotten a lot of stuff working with electricity, now, and are having a go at large vacuum-tube computers.

Yay!

And a few months later the boat-Dwarves come back with Celebrendes, who is so excited about electricity that it takes her a full week to come find Annie, introduce herself, and while positively bouncing on the spot say that she would really really love to learn the languages spoken in Annie's home world when either of them happen to have any free time and also lovely to meet you and she's not sure if she can get immortality but she'll try.

Annie is delighted to meet her, and will be happy to teach her some otherworldly languages, and would really really appreciate immortality if that is at all possible since otherwise she will die.

Yes, she has had some mortal friends and is clear on why immortality is really really important, don't worry about that, it's just also really hard, but so are a lot of these inventions that are going on now, the Dwarves weren't clear on the details of how Annie ended up in the custody of the Lady Rirosseth of Himring but Annie is welcome to convey Celebrendes' respects to her as well.

It's kind of a long story. Annie will be sure to convey the respects.

She's way more interested in the languages than the story to be honest.

Suits Annie fine. She can also hand out the languages effect, it'll make you faceblind but she can un-give it afterwards? She's not actually sure how retention after loss of the effect is because she can't take it off herself.

That sounds fascinating and she'd love to have it on for a bit just to poke at it and see how it works.