"Okay."

Can you sing more quietly? We're testing some of Annie's magic.

And when she has the go-ahead Annie picks her way forward a bit, and does get noticeably closer before twitching back (and falling over).

And getting dragged out of range. "Okay. So it's responding to something like 'what a human would hear', though actually hearing it doesn't matter, and if we get you a soundproofed room - it'll be underground, but it sounds like you won't mind if it's chilly? - then we can sing enough to stay sane without torturing you."

"Chilly would be great, I pretty much feel like I'm baking. ...Uh, I think I noticed another thing."

So she tells some people to set up a room that used to be for food storage and is as dungeon-like as any Quendi living space gets and is drafty and insulated by lots of stone from the castle above it. 

"Oh?"

"I guess it's skin-contact touch range? I only noticed it when you grabbed me. I think I could transfer the effects. I don't know if they'd be in their pairs or what the pairings are of course."

"Oh. 

And one of them is the teleporting - unless that's the one that makes you allergic to music I think most people here would take it -"

"...I think I could take them back. And I think I could give them out by drawback, so we could find what goes with feeling too hot and so on, process of elimination..."

"Couldn't take the teleport back, not if the person teleported - can you take them off yourself, or just other people -"

"Well, the teleport won't go with feeling too hot and feeling too hot will go with something useful," Annie explains. "I definitely can't take them off myself."

"...okay. I should get my sister."

Is Annie suddenly apprehensive what why would that be. "Okay."

"Do you not want her around or something -"

"No, no, it's fine."

"I didn't mean to scare you when I said when we met I was glad to have a kidnapping explanation - she used to be a good person -"

"It's really okay."

She comes. "What?"

"I can transfer effects. Skin contact range, I didn't notice it until Lírnith pulled me away from the music. Which is what I'm allergic to. But only to human earshot range. Even though I can't actually hear it unless it has lyrics."

"That is ...a weird way to delimit, but okay - you can transfer them - we can evacuate people -"

"I still think that one's a drawback not a benefit. Which means no two people could guarantee they'd be in the same place - everybody might wind up in a different world - and there's no guarantee they'd be nice places, although it is usually taken to be a consistent law that an artifact effect will never kill you outright all by itself."

"Would dropping you in the ocean count as killing you outright, though -"

"Nope. It would probably not drop you deep enough to kill you with water pressure, or in water that would kill you with hypothermia right away, but theoretically swimmable ocean that just doesn't happen to be anywhere near any land to swim to, that could happen."

"Well, everyone who stays is definitely going to die, but - if it's paired with healing or something that'd make it a lot safer -"

"I was thinking the safe thing to do would be to hand out the controllable drawbacks temporarily and see what goes with and match as much as we can that way first."