Didn't think you weren't.

I don't want this to be a disaster, I'd have to go bail it out.

I'm going to be completely honest here and say that when I try to envision disasters they mostly end in "and then the entire city was a smoking crater, because fuck Morgoth" but I'm not really imagining how that happens so it's more likely a result of preoccupation rather than reasonable prediction.

As far as we know the Enemy can't do that yet. I imagined more, like, you get assassinated and the Enemy manages to implicate someone we need and your sister is tearing the continent up....

Magic can verify guilt or innocence, and my sister is going to be very receptive to arguments that involve "Morgoth did it."

Good to know.

She's never hated anyone as much as she hates him. It--would be worrying, if I didn't know her better.

Losing a loved one changes a lot of people. 

I don't think that's actually it, although I'll grant that what would come out the other side if I died wouldn't be anywhere near as pleasant a conversationalist.

Losing a sister is very painful.

She's working on it.

That wasn't my point, Illia.

I didn't think it was. It's just painful to think about losing her, and reassuring myself that someone who's gone through something similar--well. I was talking to myself more than you, I think. Anyway. I'm fairly certain that even worst comes to worst she'll hold it together long enough to see Morgoth ended.

And the world will be very much better off for it.

I honestly think that killing me would be a tactical mistake on his part. Right now Odette's refraining from pushing herself hard enough to do psychological damage.

I very very much hope he agrees with you on that. Or can't do it.

Agreed. Definitely, definitely agreed. We'll be banking on the second more than the first.

And there's several armies and several mountain ranges between Nevrast and the Enemy.

I really need to come up with a good name for the city.

What are you considering?

Beth Shalom, Miqlat, Beth Miqlat--stuff like that. Um, "Beth" means "house" technically but it's used to name cities a lot. "Shalom" means "peace"--I'm half in favor of it because, you know, hope, but on the other half it seems a bit like tempting fate. Less of a problem for us than you, obviously. "Miqlat" means "refuge."

All of those should be pronounceable to your future citizens.

Beth Miqlat, then, I like the Beth to start it and refuge really is more what the place is for.

Lovely. Do you know our letters well enough to write it out prettily?

Think so.