"She called herself a Quendi."

"Same thing."

"Yes. Her. She wanted us to contact her gods. She thought they might end death. We weren't able to reach them, or anyone on her plane."

"Very optimistic of her."

"She seemed to know the gods personally. - she also said that her worlds didn't have humans."

"Oh."

"Does it have some humans she didn't know about."

"Maybe they don't tell the ones in Valinor about humans? I'm not from there, but there were humans native."

"Huh. Perhaps when she's had a break we can compare notes."

"Sure. Why not."

"You could instead leave and go live in Sothis with or without a way for us to contact you if we solve the mystery. If that's what you'd like to do."

"Don't speak the language, can't do any magic for reasons I'm sure you're going to claim you know nothing about and didn't pick up very many other marketable skills."

"I swear to you by Abadar who guides Osirion that no one acting on my orders brought you here or interfered with your ability to return home."

"Good for you."

"I'd really like to figure out what did, but I'm guessing it's something on your end. Both of you described a snake thing."

"Maiar can look like whatever. Didn't know they could do this though."

"Lots of things can do a touch-range Plane Shift to an unwilling target. I could do it. It's weirder that we can't send you back or contact that world, but some worlds are hard to scry on or contact."

"I don't know why you expect me to have context on this. Or are you just thinking out loud?"

"I have no idea what context you might or might not have. Mirelótë also thought that in her world only the gods could do magic. The Maiar and Valar."

"...that isn't true, Elves can make artifacts and do singing magic."

"Huh."

Cor wonders if he should've said that. Maybe the Elf is lying for a good reason. Maybe he's gotten her in trouble. He shuts up.

"Are you going to want to talk with her before we get into this more?"

"Does she want to talk to me?"

"She expressed some interest but then she learned that this place has slavery and decided to withdraw to her rooms and - well, sing about things for a while. I was going to say 'reflect' but if you have met Quendi probably you can interpret them better than I can."