"Do you have it insured?"

"Uh, the disaster and crime insurance required my address."

"Then that's probably how they'd know."

"In principle I could have rented office space to work out of but since I didn't I guess they'll find the place just fine."

"I think they're twitchy around me and flee as soon as they can, sometimes sooner. I don't know why, I complain at them but I'd never complain about them."

"I don't think I have enough context to guess, I assume people who work in palaces aren't just generally skittish around royalty."

"They adore my son. The one who's pharaoh."

"Do you go around telling people to do things he told them not to do or vice versa?"

" - possibly I should check more often if I'm doing that."

"Fëanáro and I had this problem when we first met, he kept contradicting his father at me, I was terrified!"

"I don't...it's sad in a way that we're both of us royalty. I think I would do fine at being a researcher who didn't terrify anybody."

"I did get over it."

"Am I terrifying you?"

"Nah. But your son might if he says anything less bland, I don't know."

"Well, then you don't have to meet him. Probably. Should I get a book on arcana, too, so you can see how much we might need to catch up -"

"Yeah, I gave the scrolls I saw in a store a wide berth so I dunno what yours are like. And maybe some good inks and parchment so I can draw you some."

He calls for these.

"So, I wasn't a wizard in the Imperium. I just knew cantrips and a handful of more advanced spells from high school and my first year and a half of college. But in Arda I started reverse engineering everything and got lots of results, though it's all skewed towards stuff I wanted while I was there, so, like, I don't have Fireball."

"What sort of stuff did you develop -"

"Uh, reinvented laundry boxes and crystal balls, the communicators I mentioned - Quendi are all telepathic, so I made those work by closing telepathy range, they won't work as-is for communicating between two people neither of whom is telepathic, but I could rejigger 'em - I was teaching other people too, Rúmil was doing stuff with ice so they could invent ice skating - I can fly - I made this -" She displays her watch. "It's counting Valinor time so it's not worth much here, their days are longer. I figured out one of those spells that pops up a house, there was a time when I had to go move to an island off the coast for awhile because Valinor makes people kind of... patient? And then on the island I invented a necklace to undo that. I should have probably paid a bit more attention when the Valar broke most of the necklaces... I developed Fëanáro spells as presents, he's got one for bouncing over buildings and one for spraying water around to let off steam... these boots of grace are better than the storebought my parents were able to afford for me when I needed them as a teenager..."

"You invented all that in twenty years?"

"It goes really fast when you can do science to it... I did have a Maia, a sort of minor god, helping a lot, both as a safety net when I messed with things I didn't know what they'd do yet and to get around mana limits, it turns out they just have infinite mana."

"So they can cast an arbitrary number of spells in a day? And let you do that?"

"Yup! This made Fëanáro even less likely to bother sleeping on a routine basis when we discovered it."

"I guess I can see how the locals got worried. - our gods are made of tougher stuff, though, you should be fine if you don't actually pick fights with them."