"Okay."

How do people set up appointments with you in general?

My advisor Reza does my scheduling. My father should know where to find him, or if he doesn't the servants will.

"Thank you."

Thank you. We've heard a lot about you and greatly enjoyed meeting you.

Are we being dismissed? How is it customary to leave? she asks Fe-Anar.

He'll leave first.

He does that.

"Well." I was not super expecting that conversation to go all the places it went, she tells Rúmil. I'm sorry, are you okay?

He squeezes her hand. You've mentioned that your world was - pretty terrible.

Squeeze. Yeah. But in some ways this is actually nicer than where I'm from - like, they have rules about how you can treat slaves and the Imperium doesn't, for instance - I was not expecting it to, like, get in your face about it right away.

You must've been so frightened, when you arrived in Valinor - I knew but not -

It didn't last, you helped me.

Squeeze.

"Thank you for introducing us," she says to Fe-Anar.

"Of course."

"It's getting a little late but I don't know what sleep schedule you two are on," she remarks to the Quendi. "Or non-schedule as the case may be."

"I don't wanna sleep."

"I don't need to yet."

"Well, I'm going to need to soon so you should make plans for overnight that don't require me."

"Maybe we can go out in the city more?"

"I think possibly we shouldn't. Maybe we can see if any of Fe-Anar's other children are around to meet."

"Most of them should be."

"I assume they also sleep."

"They do! Though some at odd hours."