Maglor's fingers curl in a fond caress in answer.

"I know. I love you too, Nelyo. And do not put yourself down so - I could have no finer brother than you."

"They often behave so." Maglor says wryly. "They have both been too long alone - ah, but the fights they had until they learnt to work together! And Riley, for all that she is old before her time, is by age also only just of age for mortals."