What's the current fashionable word for heritability of traits?

Trait inheritance, boringly enough. My dad's all over it.

It's an interesting field.

It is! I could probably be good at that if I really tried, I just--

I'd rather be good at making something. Less--hobnobbing with specific other smart people, more--still being useful no matter where you go.

Maybe it's petty to be so picky, but...

I mean, it's forever, it makes sense to take time to find your actual niche.

Yeah.

And, you know, in the meantime I'm learning things like embroidery. Speaking of which, the hot pink lace is actually quite fetching, I'm not sure if I ever thanked you for that.

You're quite welcome.

So much longer lasting than glitter as a prettiness-enhancing solution.

Perhaps it'll start a trend. Tirion loves its trends.

That it does.

They get some rooms in the cliff-city and eat fried oversized-snail at one of the restaurants there and ask the locals where the dinosaurs are this time of Year.

(Fried oversized snail is delicious.)

It is!

And presumably someone knows where there are dinosaurs.

There are a lot of kinds of dinosaurs, it's sort of like asking where there are mammals. Nonetheless they can get a lengthy talk on watering holes and migration patterns.

That works.

"Shall we go find some?"

"Sounds like a plan. What's good to start with?"

"Something that won't eat you. We could head north ten miles?"

"I enjoy not getting eaten! Let's do that."

They do! Enormous, slow moving, tree-eating dinosaurs can be found decidedly disinterested in taking a bite out of them.

"Wow."

"How in Arda did you come down here without seeing them?"

"Reasons."

"...huh?"