Urtho isn't quite as at ease with these people as he was with the Elves, but he likes children and likes teaching magic and, along with Ma'ar, he can keep them entertained pretty much all day. 

Ma'ar, for his part, feels MUCH more at home here. It's hard to name why, just...the orcs feel a lot more like they could, in some hypothetical other world, be his people. 

Leareth occasionally engages in conversation with the adults, or, once he's feeling less drained, lets himself be pulled in to show off magic - he can't make the children fly but he can lift them up in the air with force-nets and bounce them up and down, which they think is great fun. 

Mostly, though, he observes quietly. And reads minds, near and far; he can stretch his Thoughtsensing out to twenty miles and still pick up surface thoughts.

He orients. 

Orcs worry about their husbands slacking and their children getting sick and the boats getting damaged and their relatives who moved to the city and haven't written. They mostly don't think about Elves, or about Melkor, aside from the occasional casual prayer for good currents or good fortune. 

It's all surprisingly peaceful and pleasant. Not really what he was expecting, though Leareth isn't sure why. 

He satisfies himself that no one seems to be thinking about alien visitors. Which isn't all that surprising; whoever they pursued here wouldn't have had any reason to visit this particular stretch of random coastal villages, and might not have chosen to operate openly. Assuming they stuck around on the planet at all, rather than fleeing back to the Void as soon as they were sure they'd evaded pursuit. 

After a while he asks Urtho to please excuse himself from entertaining children and do some long-distance scrying using the focus he keeps on him, see if he can locate the faraway Elf cities, or at least somewhere inhabited by Elves rather than orcs, and get a Gate-location there. 

This is less fun but Urtho does it uncomplainingly. They're on a mission here, after all. 

Ma'ar has invented a game of chase-the-floating-mage-lights with the children, and is running around with them. He reluctantly stops this when the fish arrives and is cooked for supper. 

There are Elf cities! A couple of forest ones and half a dozen coastal ones, looks like. Mostly south of here.

Urtho reports this to Leareth, who suggests he can Gate them over to the biggest coastal city in the morning. 

Leareth thanks the orcs again for their hospitality, and discreetly casts his usual wards around whatever spot they're offered to sleep. 

Someone has an extra bedroom because their oldest son and his wife moved out; they can sleep there. The orc children sleep in snuggly piles, not closely corresponding to who their parents are. It's peaceful.

The men leave again at dawn, to go out fishing.

Their party departs as well. Leareth thanks the adults, lets Ma'ar and Urtho spend a few minutes saying goodbye to the children, and then extracts them so that Urtho can Gate them over. 

Urtho raises a Gate to a spot just outside the largest of the coastal Elf cities, and they walk through. 

What can he pick up with Thoughtsensing and mage-sight? 

There's no magic here, just like there wasn't in Valinor. The city has Elves, tens of thousands of them, mostly singing and talking to each other telepathically as they go about their business. They were noticed, even though there was no one immediately nearby; Elves have good vision and Gates are bright and conspicuous, and now a few who saw them have pointed them out to many others, who are looking in. They don't have a ready explanation. Maybe someone in Valinor did something.

Leareth wasn't planning to avoid attracting attention, so that's fine. He reaches out with Mindspeech to the nearest Elves. 

:Hello. We are visitors from another world - not Valinor, though we just came from there. We have some questions for your people: 

They are - less thrilled by this news than the ones in Valinor. Perhaps Valinor had, culturally, the preexisting concept there could be life on other worlds, and some groundwork done on the implications if that were true. These people have not thought about that and mostly seem confused. What questions do you have?

:We would like to meet and learn about your people generally, and share knowledge from our own world. - Also, we are specifically looking for another visitor who we believe was here before us. They may not have revealed themselves as being from another world, but on Valinor the Elves did a survey and asked everyone if they had seen any odd strangers. We would very much appreciate if your people could do the same: 

Sure, we can do that. They do not immediately do it, though, apparently out of a lack of being in a hurry rather than out of suspicion. Would you like to attend a concert?

Leareth had already noticed that Elves tend not to be in a hurry, as a species, and he supposes they aren't in that much of a hurry either, for the moment. :Certainly, that sounds lovely: 

Then some Elves will come and get them and show them to a stunning outdoor amphitheater where there are Elves singing and playing musical instruments. (They seem to have already been doing this, rather than starting on the guests's account.) The music is astonishing. Most people are quickly ceasing to be very curious about the guests but the ones who are still curious, which are some of them, linger. Like in Valinor no one seems to consider the situation threatening or possibly concerning. 

Someone brings a tray with a wide variety of foods and drinks for the guests. 

They get around to sending out the survey a couple of hours later, and then their minds are very very hard to read while results pour in at a pace no human could track.

Leareth can wait. 

Urtho doesn't mind waiting at all! He's much happier here, and greatly enjoying the music. 

Ma'ar, as before, is mostly very pleased about the food. 

There have been some weird people around! one of the Elves announces triumphantly after a while. There was a woman who concerned the person she spoke with because she seemed very damaged and confused, but maybe she was just from another world! And there was a woman who said she was not using her soul at all, as an artistic exercise, but - MAYBE - she was actually an alien, and told us that falsely, to conceal not having a soul at all!