She smiles. "Yes."

Snuggles~

Aww.

"I will go think about how to fight gods," she says. "It was nice to meet you."

You too! Let me know if you need to know things about gods or magic songs or whatever! I am not like classically educated but I know some things!

"I'll do that."

She returns to her wing, thinking about fighting gods and how to maintain a private thoughts distinction.

"That went well."

Did you not think it would?

"My daughter and I don't get along that well. She's upset about all the torture."

Oh.

"It's a perfectly reasonable thing to be upset about. I just - can't seem to care about it the right way."

I'm just kind of used to it being a thing that's happening. Melkor has more prisoners than you have swans and they spend more time being tortured, let alone the orcs.

"Yeah. All a matter of perspective, I guess."

And kind of convenient for him that his Beka has such low standards. If she was upset about him torturing people he'd really be in trouble.

You aren't hurting me, and you helped my baby.

He kisses her forehead. "Yeah."

Snuggle!

What a good orf. He is so happy about his orf.

Eventually: "Baby's hungry again."

Then orf and baby can be whisked off to a dining hall! And - "I should probably go feed my magic," he says. "See you."

"See you!" And she feeds her baby things, and eats some things too.

He goes and feeds his magic.

It is plenty of fun, it's just - he could be doing things that are so much more fun.

Irikaino returns to the library after a little while. She would like to talk to the orf while her father is not around, because however charming they are together it is still a little awkward, but she isn't sure how to accomplish this besides by waiting outside her wing for the orf to happen across her; going and looking would run the risk of testing the privacy spell and she really strongly prefers not to do that even though it is a very good privacy spell and has not once failed to prevent her from walking in on her father in an especially awkward moment.

Hey what's up? I'm in a dining room. I'm not sure how to find the library from here but osanwë reaches this far easy.

I want to know everything you can tell me about gods.

There's Eru who's the biggest god who made all the stuff and ignores it now that it's there, and there's fifteen Valar and one of them is Melkor, who hates all the other fourteen and also Eru and wants to wreck all their shit, and there's thousands of Maiar some of whom are almost as strong as Valar like his lordship is and some who are pretty little and many of whom want stupid random things like to sing to a tree forever. They're all really good at magic songs and can do some stuff depending on the individual one more directly than that but a lot of the stuff they can do is pretty slow to set up and works best on their own turf.

So we would be at a much greater advantage fighting them here than there?