"...dragon," says Stalas. "That's a dragon. Tev, is it just me or does the mysterious building up the mountain sound a whole lot like it might be the Temple of Sacred Ashes?"

"It's not just you," says Tev. "Should we catch up with the others and tell them there is a dragon in the Temple of Sacred Ashes."

"We should definitely do that," says Stalas. "Mirelótë, can you draw me a better map to the building with the dragon in it - I don't think we can see as well as you can, but I don't want to ask you to go back there and lead us to it, dragons are dangerous and so are people who shoot at people..."

Sure, she can do that. Draw draw draw.

He stares at the map for a minute, nods, and looks at Tev.

"This doesn't need both of us, and I'm kind of worried that if we leave Mirelótë by herself she'll run into darkspawn or something. Also I'm about three times as fast as you on these roads when I'm trying. You stay here, I go deliver the warning? And... admittedly if they're going to have to fight a dragon there is no reasonable way I should be back here teaching languages..."

"Go, fight a dragon, I'll be fine. We can head back to Redcliffe, tell them help is on the way."

"Okay." He glances at Ambela. "Did you catch all that?"

"No."

"I'm going to go catch up to the rest of the group and tell them about the dragon and show them where the building is, because I think the building with the dragon in it is exactly the place we're all looking for. The dragon might attack us, so I should be there to help in case that happens. We're looking for the building to find something in it that will help someone who lives in the town on the south end of the lake. The town on the south end of the lake is called Redcliffe. Tev wants to go back to Redcliffe, and he wants you to go with him, because it's not safe around here and he can protect you if something bad happens."

"...Okay."

He nods. "Goodbye," he says, and closes his faceplate and takes off up the road at a truly impressive run.

"...I'm hungry," says Tev, "are you hungry?"

He extracts a cloth-wrapped bundle from the pack he's carrying, opens it to reveal bread and cheese, and offers her some.

She had been going to have dinner with Rúmil when she got home. Sigh. "Yes." Takes a little, nibbles on it.

To start, there is half a loaf of bread and a fairly sizeable wedge of cheese. When Tev is done eating there's nothing but crumbs. But, considerately, he pauses several times along the way to offer her more of both things. The bread is bland but adequate; the cheese is unfamiliar but not unpleasant.

He's clearly hungrier than her; she doesn't take more after the first portion.

And then he scuffs at the various things drawn in the road until they're mostly obscured, and sets off back the way he came, toward the south end of the lake.

"I can try to teach you the language some more while we travel," he offers. "I'm not as good at it as Stalas, but I'll do my best."

"Yes please."

"Okay, uh... how about time and distance, that seems useful... that's the sun," he points at a brighter spot in the overcast sky above the mountains, "...I guess you'll have to take my word for it, or maybe you can see it right now, I know I can't... the sun rises in the morning, and then it's daytime, and the sun sets in the evening and then it's nighttime, and between one sunrise and the next sunrise is a day. It took us eight days to walk here from Redcliffe - I can't remember if we've done numbers already - " he counts demonstratively on his fingers, "one two three four five six seven eight."

Now that the immediate practicalities are out of the way she should really be trying to learn this language the way Fëanaro would, seeing as he'd be better at it than her. "Maybe the sun can set in the morning? Maybe two suns rise in the morning?"

...he laughs. "No, those things don't happen."

"Valinor has two suns," she informs him. "It is the next sunrise? It is nighttime?"

"...two suns...?"

"One sun?" she confirms, pointing up at the sun. "Valinor has two suns. Have two suns?"

"Yeah, that's one sun over there - you'd say 'has', Valinor has two suns... the thing that's confusing me here is how Valinor has two suns..."

...she doesn't have anywhere near an orbital mechanics amount of vocabulary. "Valinor suns Telperion, Laurelin."