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"I don't have a strong opinion on that as long as there's enough checks on who comes through that it's not troublemakers."

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"That shouldn't be a problem."

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"Good, random shorefolk would be pretty defenseless."

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"The first humans here were, too, and I think we did right by them. As much as we could."

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"It is very weird how Erus drop species places."

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"Yes, it is."

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"Anyway I should go tell my island to expect aliens eventually." Flap.

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Also the Fëanors would like to learn the lyrical language and talk about her writing system for it, please.

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Sure. (All of them? Should they book a lecture hall?)

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No, just one, they'll pass the notes on to the rest, they're all very busy trying to figure out if you can kill a Vala with four Silmarils and developing portals and working on rings of power and so on.

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All right, well, whichever Fëanor can come meet her in Beach then.

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He will do that!!

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And here is Beach! It has shorefolk in it. They look up when he appears and then ignore him with an air of "oh, Tireh is doing more weird stuff".

"Hi!" says Tireh.

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He echoes the sound she just made! 

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"You got perfect pitch somehow, right?"

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"Hexed it on. Makarial'd already charted it, years ago. ...he didn't even need it, he was annoyed by other peoples' singing."

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She giggles. "I've never tried to teach a language before, how do you want to do it?"

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"I'll turn Allspeak off, you say things, I say them back with variants and you correct me if I'm getting it wrong -"

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"You don't want me to explain any of it first?"

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"You can if you'd like!"

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"I'm just not sure how easy it'd be to pick up the singing and syllables distinction starting from a language that doesn't have it - the language can be completely sung or hummed without losing any meaning, but it's faster if there are syllables, and most words have syllable versions, because they allow compounds. Like, 'person' is -" chirp! "- but you can turn it into a phrase if you sing the same notes - 'singer' is what we usually call ourselves -" She sings that.

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"Idiolects vary a lot, there aren't any like that but there are distinctions no other language has - 'person', 'singer'?"

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"Mmhm!"

And she starts singing random information.

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He bounces gleefully. "Oh, it's beautiful - to be fair I say that about every language - oh it is beautiful? to be balance I say that again and again a language? -"

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She laughs at him and corrects his translations and flaps her wings with amusement.

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