"Yup. I swear before Eru that I am a penguin- does your world have those?"

"Yes. My world has penguins," snorts Bella.

"I miss some things about Oaths, but it saved orcs and prevented many issues, so..."

"Maybe I should get her to do it in my Arda too."

"I think the process was painful and dangerous and it caused considerable grief - it dissolves all marriages.... Depends how many orcs you have."

"I don't know how many."

"I'll raise it with her. Maybe eventually someone else will be worthy of wielding the soul stone."

"It works by worthiness?"

"I think it works by the personal amusement of the artifacts. Father is of the firm opinion they're all evil and I see where he's coming from."

"Yeah, he mentioned that. Evil in a sort of by-inaction way though, lots of things are that."

"Indeed. I don't dislike them. Loki is fond of hers."

"It grants her amazing powers, I think granting me amazing powers is a pretty good shortcut on that."

"I shall keep that in mind."

"Do you have amazing powers to dispense? Are you holding out on me?"

"I have yet to figure out how to bottle it! When I do my father will be the first recipient."

"All right then. - Is it weird for you that my Fëanáro is fairly unlikely to marry our Nerdanel? He's growing up faster than her now..."

"I expect I don't exist in the vast majority of universes, and never lost much sleep over it. Your universe is poorer for its lack of Macalaure but you can import ours from time to time."

"What're we missing?"

"He sings. And composes. You've never heard anything like it. I can send some recordings back with you but they fail to fully capture it."

"They'd be nice to have anyway, I'm sure."

"Coming right up." The wooden desk had a well-disguised monitor. 

"Now the question is how I will play them on a crystal ball or a science ethernet machine if they are from yet a third sort of thing..."

"Crystal balls I cannot help with but if the science Ethernet runs on state machines then these are in principle compatible."

"I do not know very much about how the science ethernet works. Haven't been in the new world for long. It involves electricity and screens and stuff."

"I would not expect there were two nonmagical ways of doing computing."