"I doubt it."

"Then make Curvo fix them."

" - what are you going to do if - we don't have enough food as it stands -"

"Go and help them -"

"They might shoot us."

"Osanwë range is much better than arrow range, they won't shoot us accidentally."

"I didn't say accidentally."

"If they're crossing, then they'll make it across and be angry at us, which is worse than if we try to help -"

"Or they won't make it across -"

"The Enemy thinks they will. - or he just liked being able to bring that much pressure to bear on me, that could also have been it. But check."

He asks Curufinwë to try to get the palantiri better at long-range spying. He visits Beka. " - would you rather I not visit -"

"You don't have to. - but I like it when you sing me pretty things."

He is delighted to spend the time he allots himself for singing pretty things singing them to her and the baby.

It's nice.

She doesn't flirt.

That's good! He should probably just have told her that the very first day. Though maybe it's better for it to have waited on her having more reason not be scared of them.

She doesn't seem especially scared. Maybe a little subdued.

"Do you think you'd rather swear something and have freedom of movement but with the risk of Angband catching up with you, or stay here -"

"I don't wanna stay here forever, I'm not gonna die of it but at least in Angband I could run around."

Nod. "Up to you."

"What do you want me to swear?"

"That you don't know anything you expect we'd want to know, and aren't presently under any orders from Melkor or his agents - that part's safe - and that if you receive such orders you will inform us of them as quickly as is safe, and not act on them, and not communicate with Angband without express authorization, and not act against our people in a long list of ways I've written down. Unless you surrender and ask to no longer be bound by those terms, obviously."

"I'm not sure I can predict super well what I expect you'd want to know. I could swear I can't think of anything I currently know that I would refuse to tell you if I were convinced that you wanted to know it?"

"- would 'that Maitimo'd want to know' be an easier criteria, since there aren't things he might not want to know for privacy reasons -"

"He might not remember all of it."

"Do you expect there's things he doesn't remember and would rather not?"