"Not a huge factor, you'll be very light and I can heal you, but learning to steer is mostly something you should pick up after you learn not to hit the ground, so not near a vertical surface."

"There's a big courtyard for gatherings and dances."

"Sure." She turns him invisible for the walk over except a little shimmer so she can tell where he is, and when they get there she holds out her hand.

He takes it instantly.

He crashes. Not to be unappreciative when you've saved us a fair bit of time and posturing on the assassin nonsense, but - you don't understand why it would bother people that you can take our freedom from us at will with a touch?

I do understand that. But I'm working with limited tools and I want to know when they're going to stop working. She picks him up and throws him again. I said 'expecting them to know', not 'remembering having personally taught them'.

Understood. If I teach anyone how to fly I'll tell you, or if we've ended up hostile I'll tell you that.

Someone tried to assassinate your father, right? At the start of this whole mess?

Yes. We were having a umpteencentennial parade about, I forget, some war, and a couple of people in the crowd shot at him and he collapsed off the vehicle.

Do you know why? Had he done anything that would provoke that?

Frigg takes negligible public actions and I didn't stay long enough to learn their motives. It may have been an attempt to upset Odin.

Well. At least we don't have to wonder at anyone's motives to kill my father.

There's a range of possibilities, but that it would happen is not so inherently puzzling, it's true. Fling fly flop.

Range of possibilities being 'they hate him and want him to die and didn't consider what would happen next' to 'Moringotto', yes?

I actually came up with the guess that she did consider what happened next and considered this for whatever reason the best way to get at Nolofinwë. Not that I think it's terribly likely.

Huh. I feel like I'm even more offended by someone murdering my father because it happened to be a good way to invite retaliation against her commander than murdering my father because, you know, he's responsible for the death of her family or something conventional like that.

Well, it probably wasn't that, but it's not completely outside the realm of possibility. If it were that she should have come up with a better reason to expect Nolofinwë to support her story, though.

If you hadn't been present, and we'd just had to somehow notify him "we found your scout trying to kill my father", I expect he'd have declined to outwardly acknowledge that she'd disobeyed orders and couldn't possibly be lost. Solidarity is funny that way.

Yes, but she knew I existed and swung through the general area every few days, or information dissemination is not as good as I thought it was. I suppose she might have considered that both factions could have reason to trust me.

Or she expected to succeed, and wasn't thinking about having a plausible story if she failed.

Suicide mission. Yeah.

Tightly. It would have been.