"Yeah that might not work. There might not be enough of your planet to sustain things in orbit, even if it exerts gravitational force normally when you get away from the part where there is magically a down."

"We'll think of some way to do it."

"Sure. Does mean you can't just copy rocketry outright."

"Challenge will be good for us."

"Sure, it'll be great."

They approach Tampa.

Cities! Skylines! Construction! 

All those things! "It's not as pretty as Valinor, humans don't optimize for that on large scales and even places we're trying to make pretty aren't as intensely focused on it."

"Elves probably couldn't live here but visiting would be fine."

"How is Tampa uninhabitably unattractive. It's, like, on the water? It's got palm trees."

She sends him a mental image of Tirion.

"Holy shit I wanna live there."

"They don't have Internet."

"All right I want to take a one-week vacation there."

"We're working on Internet!"

"It's really a pity we can't run cable through the portal and have it transmit, I don't know why that shouldn't work."

"Maybe they'll figure out a way."

"Maybe. Then Alex will try to live in Tirion, apparently."

"It looks really nice there!"

"Most of the buildings don't have indoor plumbing."

"Okay never mind then!"

"Working on it."

"Yeah but Bella says everything happens really slow. So, I dunno, maybe I can retire there or something?"

"Always an option."

"Cool. Like, it is very pretty and apparently everybody is nondynamic so that's nice but I like, you know, showering."

"Nondynamic?"