"Well, let's head back to the palace, then, I suppose I don't know if they all live there but it'd be where to look."

"Okay." He hugs his books tightly to his chest and turns around.

Back they go. What is the security procedure for getting in?

They have to sit for a while while various people get consulted but it's a much nicer waiting place than her first time being taken to the palace.

Wiggle wiggle.

"What are your books about?"

"This one is called The Starstone: A History of Men Who Became Gods and this one is called Why Is There Evil?"

"An excellent question, that. You'll have to tell me what's in 'em when you've read them."

"I will!"

They're let into the palace before he's gotten very far, though.

Whereupon they can maybe find Fe-Anar and be introduced to more of his kids, it being not the middle of the night.

They can! His oldest kid is the pharaoh who they already met, his second-oldest kid, Masaharta, is around in the palace; his third-oldest disappears for months at a time and is presently disappeared; his fourth-oldest runs a temple in the city; his fifth-oldest is travelling in Tian Xia; and the twins should be here somewhere.

"- he's allowed to disappear? For months?"

"Not really, no. No one's found a way to stop him short of holding him in a prison cell, though."

"Awkward. Well, who do you want to go looking for first, Fëanáro?"

"What're twins?"

"Twins are when a woman bears two children at once. Do Quendi not do that?"

"No. It sounds neat!"

"Identical or fraternal?"

"Identical."

"Hey I just had a wild speculation. Can I meet your wife?"

"Of course!"

To his wife, wherever she may be hidden away!

She works in her sculpture garden. He takes them there.

"- yep, that's her. We don't have to actually interrupt her."

" - hmm?"