Beka is not sure what she was expecting as a result of walking into a snake monster but an Elf city would have been very low on a list of possibilities if someone had jumbled a lot of random words together into place-phrases and had her rank them. "Elf city" would probably have been under "spider void" and above "grape juice ocean". And yet here she is.
Someday there'll be a place as rich as Valinor and as free as Beleriand, full of children with nothing to be afraid of. If we win.
It's lovely. He sings it.
He waits for the Enemy to do something.
The Enemy...still doesn't.
Elsewhere, a human looking girl in pajamas, holding a baby in one arm and a glowing rectangle in the other, appears. She does not know how to keep private thoughts and is super confused.
Shit she's gonna die they are not gonna want a red in their art project is this a movie set???
She clutches baby and pocket everything and holds absolutely still and does not touch anything.
Well yeah she was about to go to bed but she can't fall asleep they will totally kill her and the baby no -
Macalaurë bewilderedly updates Beka. That was okay, right, it wasn't too scary a way to wake up?