"If Andreth is alive seems like it might be an exception. Diplomatic leverage is military action."

"True...what time is it? I think I wasn't really paying attention when I was nerding with your nephew."

"Pretty late. You're not going today."

"Dinner, then, and then a short stint with the orcs, and I can leave after breakfast tomorrow."

So they dinner. And then orcs. And then bedtime.

And then breakfast, in the morning, and then off to where she settled the refugees.

They're still there. They don't have shelter. There is a river.

Oooof course they don't.

Presumably someone will notice her if she hovers a bit above and a few meters off horizontally from where they are.

People definitely notice her, and gather around a bit warily.

"I'm sorry I wasn't gentler relocating you. It was a crisis and I was more worried about getting as much done as I could as quickly as I could than about how well I was doing it. I am extremely magic even beyond the floating and I can raise houses, heal anyone who's wounded or sick, restore youth and teach anyone who wants to learn the basics of how my magic works."

They look around at each other, a little bewildered. Then - "Okay," a woman says, shouldering to the front. "Lot of people are wounded, maybe let's start there. And can you do food?"

"Yes. Plant matter's easier than meat but I can do both."

Food and building requests, and healing, take most of the morning to fill.

The food takes her the longest, unless anyone's missing pieces that include bone she has to re-grow.

They aren't. And then they are all gathered in an orderly manner for magic lessons, from age five to, yeah, about age ninety.

She considers shooing the children, decides this isn't the best idea possible, and begins.

This is how magic works this is what it costs don't do anything much bigger than fixing diseases until you are at least fourteen please this is what it feels like so far only telepathy has been demonstrated to get that across with enough fidelity here are some basic exercises does anyone want her to de-age them while they're working on those, magic can totally do this, she is in fact twenty-one but she's still going to look like she's in her early twenties when she's ninety and is not at any point going to die of old age.

This provokes outright cheers. And crying. And hugs. And is quite disruptive, really, but then they get back to the exercises with a ferocity. Everyone would like her to de-age them.

She's not de-aging anyone younger than twenty--can't, actually, what this does is reverse deterioration due to age, not maturation--but everyone older than twentysomething gets to be much younger. Also she would like to introduce herself to people while she's fixing them, her name's Odette, what's yours?

"Beril." "Hirwen." "Bregor." "Gilwen." "Andreth," says a women of nearly ninety with a firm handshake.

Odette commits all these names to memory, and allows none of the glee that Andreth is still alive to show on her face, and finishes de-aging everyone, and supervises the rest of the lesson, and gives a general outline of how to progress from there, apologizing that she has a lot of things to do and she'll drop by later to see how they're progressing, she promises, but she has other things that need magicking; is there anything else they can think of that she could do to help before she goes? Besides "kill Morgoth"; that one's a long-term project.

They will have more suggestions drawn up for her when she returns.

Excellent.

She kills orcs for a while, which is less excellent, eats some lembas she had grabbed before she left for dinner, kills some more orcs, and heads back to Celegorm's fortress.

She was totally alive and is now as physiologically young and healthy as I am, she informs Celegorm when she's in regular osanwe range.

Cool! Did you two get the chance to speak?

I couldn't figure out a non-awkward way to say 'hey your ex-boyfriend is dead but I can probably bring him back and also I heard his brother is a prick' so I didn't bring up that I was specifically looking for her, but we talked a little bit while I was teaching magic.

Yeah, fair enough. She's written several dozen books on history, culture, and politics. I shoulda mentioned that before you left.