Eric notices Thranduil relaxing, and it pleases him. If he had been intending on scaring the other he would have done so in a much different way, after all. But the idea had been to share in his wonder, and it looks as though finally Thranduil is getting that as well.

"I learned how to fly in a forest, long ago," he says, suddenly, as if the thought just occurred to him and he's letting it go straight from his brain to his mouth. He probably is. "Godric taught me. When I was new."