And that would be why your cousin has to remind my sister to get a reasonable amount of sleep.

My cousin is a bit of a hypocrite; his family pulls a lot of sleepless nights. Though perhaps that's how he knows to tell her.

I'm pretty sure that's the case.

My cousins are very easy to like much better than they deserve.

My sister finds liking people very easy. It's a potentially troublesome combination.

I don't think they'll commit another atrocity. I can imagine it, but it doesn't seem particularly likely.

I'm rather reassured by the fact that Odette's reaction to liking them is more likely to be to drag them bodily away from that kind of thing than to enable it, if it comes down to it.

That is a reassuring thought.

If I thought your cousins were going to do something terrible and she was inclined to enable it I'd be dragging her bodily away from them.

I get the sense a Vala would be needed to bodily drag your sister away from anything.

She would do it if I told her it was important enough to me. She likes them a lot; I might have to beg. But I am the only force in the world capable of absolutely stopping my sister from doing something.

Good to keep in mind.

I have to really mean it though; my priorities don't automatically override hers.

I didn't get that sense from the two of you, no.

She's also the only force capable of absolutely stopping me from something, but obviously that's less often relevant.

And we could probably do it, albeit with extraordinary casualties. It's my job to think about that sort of thing.

You could kill me. You couldn't guarantee that I wouldn't manage to claw my way out of whatever afterlife exists and try again. But I don't think that's likely to matter.

I've never heard of the Enemy having remote mind control.

Huh?

I am not at all worried you'll go on a murder spree. A known capacity of the Enemy is his ability to release prisoners who go back to their lives and then one day kill everyone they can. He hasn't done that to people he hasn't had as prisoners.

Ah. Um.

Thus thinking what we could possibly do.

So I sort of hate to ask the obvious question but I assume there's a reason we're not all on much worse tenterhooks about Maedhros than we are. If it's former prisoners of the Enemy.

No, there really isn't one, except that he was rescued not released and most of the ones who snapped didn't last this long. 

Well, it's been more than four hundred years and he's had that fortress, I would expect that if he were the world's most patient sleeper agent he'd've been activated when the volcanoes blew. I'm not going to lose sleep over it.