"About a day's ride from here - we can take a wagon if that's easier -"

"It would be. It would've been too convenient for one of my artifacts to make me less prone to falling down."

"There are rings of grace, I'll look into getting you one from the city."

"Thank you."

"Of course." And they set off for Aulë's.

"If there's a way to de-oath the orcs that Mandos likes well enough it'd work on all your other kids and your wife too but I don't know what it does to married Elves at all."

"...I expect that even de-oathed there is no chance the Valar'd let her ever return to life."

"Maybe not."

"Rirosseth has the incentive and the capacity to try to charm Mandos into forgiving her. Fëanáre -"

Nod.

Annie doesn't have much else to say for the rest of the trip.

And they reach Aulë's. It is, like many of Valinor's sights, too palatial and spacious for Annie to appreciate properly. Istarno announces them, and then the air pressure builds and there's static on her skin.

It's not pleasant, but few things about Annie's life these days are pleasant. She keeps a neutral expression on her face.

And Istarno asks if Aulë can make her immortal. Aulë says that she would need to consult Eru on that.

Eru says that there is a divine plan for Annie and that it does not involve the Valar making her immortal. Aulë conveys this, with her regrets, and asks if there's anything else.

...Istarno wonders if Aulë could make Annie less hot all the time, maybe.

Aulë does not need to consult Eru on that one. She tries something.

"...still hot," says Annie.

Aulë tries something else.

"- that helps. What is it?"

"It just makes your immediate surroundings very very cold all the time - I might want to do 'except people and except things you're holding', so you can hug people..."

"Yes please. If it'd be possible to fade it out if I ever do go somewhere very cold that would be nice too."

She concentrates. "There you go."

"Thank you very much. ...I'm also allergic to music and it makes it hard to go places."

"It seems that I can't alter the effects, just the senses you interact with - I could make you deaf? Or able to selectively become deaf?"

"I'm actually already deaf. Except for speech. Which doesn't make a difference, lyricless music hurts just as much. But it responds to sound insulation - what seems to matter is whether I would be able to hear it where I am if I weren't deaf."

"I could make you able to selectively insulate the area around you?"