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.
But as long as they have some money sloshing around they can send people and get them home again for like, twice-yearly visits or so?
Yes, easily.
A bunch of countries round up some greens and send them to Oahk to go back on the ship and pay the Teleri for their trouble. Some of those countries also politely withdraw from their agreement with the Noldor.
The Noldor respect their choices but, uh, did the exiled blues explain Valinor's timeslide.
They said the days were twice as long and that they didn't notice till they got back to Amenta, but sleeping half as much should compensate for that partway.
As a friend and ally Calado advises them to ask the Teleri how long they expect it to take their teachers to teach the locals.
...they ask.
The fastest track is four Years.
Can they speed that up at all.
Uh, why?
Well, that's ten Amentan years and a lot of people who would love to go to other planets and have kids on them will be infertile by then and a lot of people who might want to go to other planets for other reasons will be actually dead.
...that's really depressing. Uh, they just really aren't set up to do things in a tearing rush.
Could they get set up that way, perhaps?
Uh. They really recommend the Noldor to people in a tearing hurry.
...some countries reenter their agreements.
Some of them observe that the "foreign greens" condition means they can have people sitting in on lessons in Calado anyway and decides to send some people to Valinor just so as to avoid having all their eggs in one basket and find being known to be committed to avoiding military aggression to be really gouging them in certain areas of international diplomacy and decline to resume having a formal agreement.
A few of the Calado blues attempt to reenter the country.
They are arrested at the border. Are they applying for citizenship under the new government?
They just want to go home!!!!!!
If they acknowledge the new government that works. Otherwise it really doesn't.
What does acknowledgment consist of?
They agree that Calado is legitimately governed by the government installed after the coup and they won't break its laws or try to overthrow it. And they understand that if they do try to orchestrate a foreign invasion that will be treason and punished accordingly.
A two year old girl starts crying.
They don't hurt two year olds for treason, if she's worried.
"I just want to go home!" she sobs into her father's arm.
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