"I guess it's hard to imagine even grownup Fëanáro wanting to tell us where to put our houses or in fact having thought about it much at all."

"Unless he had decided somewhere was not for houses because it was for his library." Maitimo? Rúmil wants to know where we should, like, live.

Of course. I can show you sections of the city by their intended aesthetic and spacing of homes and you can think about where your design will fit in - and he sends this over.

She bounces it to Rúmil. "I'm probably just going to conjure a bungalow with some empty walls for people to add pretty stuff to it, I don't know about you."

"That seems like a good start, we can always replace it with something terribly elaborate later if we want."

"Or if we just miss having stairs. Though I don't know if I'll ever specifically miss stairs."

"Did you have a preference about which area of the city to put it, it looks like it'd fit in fine in several -"

"I haven't decided! We could be neighbors, where do you wanna go?"

"Hmmm..." and he reviews the locations and picks one, an area planned to be dense with houses and near the sea and not too far from the palace.

"Ooh, beachy. Do you think Fëanáro will want to move in with one of us or with his alt's family or just sort of not effectively live anywhere because he barely sleeps?"

"I suspect we should build him a library in one of our houses, or maybe between them, and also put a bed and a wardrobe and other things a child might need in it, and not at any point call it his bedroom."

"Ooh, a library between the houses, I love it."

He beams at her. "Then we should get to work!"

She will rummage through her stuff till she finds her crystal ball and start designing a bungalow on it.

Maitimo wants to ask about Leareth again but he just asked about Leareth and the answer almost definitely hasn't changed. It'll be a long time before he's all right but he will be all right. Maitimo will have to live with that. 

Once things have died down a little bit he does invite Bella and Rúmil and the functional Leareth and Vanyel ("should we also invite younger Vanyel?") to debrief on everything and make sure all known tragedies in the earlier-in-history Velgarth are averted and compare magic systems again without anyone keeping secrets for war-related reasons.

Vanyel would lean against inviting his younger alt, unless Bella disagrees; they can talk over the earcuff or he can visit the other Velgarth and catch him up later, and from what he remembers of being eighteen, a long meeting with this many people would be incredibly draining. 

It will probably go over best for older Vanyel to go deliver advice to the earlier Valdemar anyway. "How complicated is it to prevent the war with Karse, is that just a matter of forewarning people that it's a terrible idea or are we going to want to have a big army visibly hanging around glaring - 

- maybe Lórien will make Elspeth immortal, if you think that's a good idea -"

"I'm not sure they can do immortal as opposed to just slowing down aging by a large factor since that's what I got."

"It's not at all as simple as warning people, it– hmm. There were political tensions there for decades, I don't fully understand the rationale within Karse. But I do think that if we were more obviously prepared, they would leave it alone even if Elspeth died. Making her immortal would be...several additional layers of complication, politically speaking, but if Lórien were just willing to heal any ailments she has and slow aging a bit, twenty years instead of five would make a huge difference and it wouldn't be totally implausible for a normal human lifespan. If Lórien is willing to do it for Elspeth, I think we ought to ask for Queen's Own Lancir as well, he died a few months before her and it was very hard on her. Also on me, I guess, er, younger me." 

"Also if he dies that will probably kill Sayshen."

Vanyel gives her a blank look. "Who?" 

"His original Companion. She's my friend, I was bringing her along before I had the spell failure problem and when I go back to Haven to grab my stuff and say goodbye again I'll pick her up. I don't know exactly how coordinated Companion deaths work but if a lot of Companions were hanging around being immortal because a Groveborn stole their human I think I might have heard about this, so..."

"Lórien can maybe do something about broken - all the kinds of death-link things you have in your world. Not getting them to go away but making them much less impossible to work around." Apologetic glance at Vanyel. "I asked him but he wasn't sure and so I figured it was better to not even mention it until Melkor was dead."

Vanyel is still trying to think of an answer to the first bit, which is mostly that he really should have thought of that but didn't and also now he's thinking of poor Tran and Delian, and– and then the second part catches up with him and he freezes, unable to speak at all. 

"I don't really expect Lórien to be able to fix it but it's worth asking. Maybe this one's gotten better at things in the last millennia. - Lórien's one of the better ones but Valar in general are not very good at delicate mind stuff."