"Some of those pranks took serious effort."

"They did!"

"What d'you do all day when you're not messing with anyone?"

"It varies. I haven't found anything I really want to do with myself, in the long term, so I--bounce, mostly. I'm not really good at anything but I'm okay at lots of things."

"You can come over for dinner sometime. No guarantee you'll see your sister, though."

"Yes, yes, she has been swallowed by the nerd herd."

"I'll see you there anyway."

"I look forward to it!"

Some people are mildly disappointed that the dramatics ended without bloodshed, but Tyelcormo's brothers aren't among them and mostly smile at her.

That's good; Tyelcormo's family is pretty great.

...People are disappointed it ended without bloodshed? Really? Who?

Oh, you know, it's just that Tyelcormo is the disaster of the royal house and it's terribly entertaining to watch what he gets up to.

Ahuh. Yeah, Ahyadacil would be disappointed in you all if she had higher baseline expectations of people.

Not that she says that out loud. ...To them, anyway. She's perfectly willing to express the sentiment to people it's not aimed at.

"There're worse things to have a reputation for. And of course they want respite from their boring, boring lives."

"Yeah, but the fact that they think you're a disaster doesn't reflect well on them."

"I mean, fuck 'em, but they think I'm a disaster at least partially on purpose, I was not trying to impress them and I didn't. That's - sort of a fair trade."

"Yeah, but, like, it's not that I'm judging them for 'thinking you're a disaster' as an atomic concept, it's that the things you actually do are things I'm judging them for considering disastrous."

"...fair."

"I try."

And he plans out a trip south. He doesn't make it any shorter or more comfortable to accommodate her, but he does tell her what to expect. He'll be gone most of a Year.

Well, if she hates it she can just not do it again. She tells her sister and parents how long she expects to be gone so they'll know when to start pestering Mandos if she gets eaten by a dinosaur and shows up when it's time to go.

She isn't super likely to get eaten by a dinosaur but it's wise not to assume Mandos'd, like, think to notify anyone if she did. They head out.

Among the myriad skills she is decent but not fantastic at are several travel-related ones.

Good! Not that he can't catch enough food for both of them but it's more fun if he doesn't have to.

Yeah she's not even on the same continent as his skill level by any stretch of the imagination but she can generally get something.

Well, he had Oromë teaching him for ages.