Downstairs the door opens and in walks a six year old girl with a weird animal.
They are that. He comes up with lots more compliments. He enchants the sheets to grab them both and tug them back into bed when they are considering departing it (they will wilt obediently away if Cam glares at them.) He endeavors not to wonder whether Eru is omniscient.
He has the portal opened again so access to Godspring isn't dependent on the Milliways door and puts out small fires and arranges an agenda for Liatsi's trip to Tirion.
Liatsi arranges to have a day off and asks if there will be any trouble about bringing her goldmage bodyguard.
"Not at all. If you'd like more than a dozen people along I will have to change some meeting room reservations but that's all."
"In that case I may ask my other mages and the ministers if they would be interested. Will a red and a white mage be reasonably safe?"
"I don't know if there's yet universal familiarity with what all the colors mean, but I could assign some of our security to supplement. White mage should be fine, Elves don't get sick, but there aren't any humans living on Valinor and it's possible something that doesn't make us sick does affect you."
"She will probably opt not to risk it. He I'm less sure of; he can at least cover up."
"Everyone does know not to touch redmages in particular, in addition to not touching strangers in general."
Nod.
The redmage wants to come, and the blue, and both have attendants, and the Minister of Culture is coming too.
Lovely. "There's a portal currently open from the Temple-Guild I visited with you earlier, if that's a convenient location from which to depart."
"That suits, particularly if a fairy transports us again."
She stops in to see Wiar very briefly on their way through.
He apologizes again to Cir's family for the inconvenient portal location. They go through. They close the door. They open it on Tirion, where the Milliways entrance has been converted into a welcome amphitheatre with added security so if unwelcome people walk through the door it'll be handled. (They had some fairies move the palace).
"I think you'll like the city." Tirion has the best skyline in Valinor; he helped arrange for the architects to coordinate, so he might be biased, but art reviewers think so too. They go outside.
Lovely! And he has a large floatcar booked and they can go over to the relocated palace and meet the King.
No, technology. Harder to maintain than the things they've installed in Cefax so far, but once Cefax has power plants and so on then they can upgrade the trains and once they have mass manufacturing then they can develop floatcars, they're very hard to design traffic law around so in Tirion they're only permitted for state functions and emergency services.
The bluemage loves the floatcar. The bluemage's attendant is concerned it will be difficult to explain if he has a bad comprehension day and wants one. Oh well.
"You could have a fairy do it." Palace!
It's an extravagantly pretty palace, of course.
They are all getting to be a little over-prettied in the sense that they cannot continue manifesting the same level of awe at every new thing, but yes, so pretty.
They land and there are introductions. He adores introductions.
His fork is a little hard to explain. "We can make copies of ourselves if we want. There are two of me; this is Dawn -"
They're all a little confused by the concept. The bluemage is bewildered. The bluemage's attendant tells him they are weird twins.
Yes, kings they understand. They are all very formal and polite about being introduced to the king.