They circle the planet and look at the architecture. They are somewhat disappointed.
"Maybe the aliens think they're pretty," someone says dubiously.
"No," someone else says. "Some things are universal."
"Maybe the aliens are all blind."
"That makes more sense."
"Well we have to pick somewhere."
This place has a lovely large statue-garden-monument thing that Elves would not go out of their way to avoid if it were in Tirion, though they'd probably walk through it quickly. They go for that one.
Does anyone else try to prevent the ship from taking off.
There is enough confusion that no one mounts an attempt to do that. Someone does chase them in a moon shuttle but can't keep up.
Elves grumble about being stuck in the ship for another five days and assign the new immigrants rooms and get them food and set to teaching them Quenya.
The new immigrants are apprehensive and hastily packed and awed by the ship.
Elves will try to reassure them. Valinor's lovely, look, here are pictures. It will have everything they need. - it might not have doctors who know anything about Amentans but they can get some next trip and the Valar suffice in a pinch.
It looks very pretty.
Elves are glad they think so. It is also very peaceful and well-run!
Will they be able to visit the rest of their families sometimes?
Yes there'll be regular travel as soon as the thing with people threatening them is all sorted.
Oh good. Then they can go back for their turtle/favorite sandals/cousin/etc.
Elves are mildly distressed that their society was so unpleasant that fleeing immediately to live with aliens who promised nothing beyond jobs and children was the best choice but are glad that, given how it was like that, they could offer that choice and also let them go back for those things.
They would have liked a little more warning but they were not going to pass up the chance if it did not come back!
Some Elves ask thoughtfully how people would feel about it if maybe someone else started running Calado, but let people have more children and ran the colony program competently.
It's not like anybody likes the blues.
So if they just got, uh, packed off somewhere, and everybody got lightleapers and a less dangerously flail-y government?
It would probably be terrifying if they disappeared the blues.
Ah. Because people'd worry they might disappear more people?
Yes. And maybe someone likes some of them.
Do they have ideas on how to make the blues stop exercising incompetent terrible authority without removing them from it?
Uh, foreigners always seem to think the problem is child permissions, but the blues are keeping it because all the powerful blues can have kids.
That's interesting. Probably lots of people will be very interested in what they think of Valinor and whether they think Calado would function if it were run that way.
Yeah, probably.
Some people mind. The ambassador of Tapa knows who needs to not mind for them to do it anyway and pokes those people.
A useful skillset. The Elves hang close together and look at things and people and are entirely content unless anyone is being bothered or threatened or menaced.
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