"I have not seen them."

"Want to? They're amazing and they saved everyone though I guess Loki could have resurrected them all if they'd died."

"Sure, why not."

The Silmarils are in an enormous amphitheater attached to the building they're in. They are dazzling; everything they cast light on looks astonishingly pretty. The amphitheater seems to be a museum/memorial documenting the recent war. 

"They're really pretty," she agrees.

"They're really powerful."

"What-all do they do?"

"Even my counterpart doesn't know, I don't think, but they should be able to do anything a Vala can do and also some things the Valar can't do or can do in a time-dependent way or can only do conditionally - well, not anything a Vala can do, this kind of power is only one avenue by which the Valar have powers, but lots. It's the light of creation and in principle infinite, which is good because in his kind of magic the difficulty of lots of things increases very rapidly with the effect size, but that doesn't matter if you have something with infinite energy... I am thinking that I could use it as a mana source if I knew how. Like a Maia."

"Ooh, that would be cool, we did not bring any Maiar with us when we escaped."

"There are some sort of friendly ones in this multiverse. One of my sons has one and Loki is acquainted with some others according to the history I read. But this would be better because I made them and can make them again."

"And they would probably be more convenient to have around all the time than Maiar."

"I don't think my counterpart wants me to take his but I bet he'll teach me how to make my own in my Arda and how to be sure I can teleport out safely. But that's more things I need to know!"

"They do kind of pile up."

"People were awful to my counterpart about them so I don't really even want to ask if we can borrow one. Maybe if we had a really good reason, like we needed mana to save lots of people."

"As far as I know we do not currently face a mana shortage as our primary obstacle in saving people."

"So I won't ask now." He stares longingly at them.

"You'd have to make yours in Arda?"

"Light of the Trees at Mingling is a necessary component."

"Inconvenient."

"Can't make more Silmarils from existing Silmarils either, and my counterpart thinks three is the most that can be done. So obviously I'm going to try four."

"Obviously."

"Do you think I can't do it?"

"Well, I don't know why he thinks it's impossible, but I agree it is definitely the thing to try."

He beams at her. "As soon as we have a teleport the Valar can't touch."

"Which apparently my counterpart can supply! But I hear it's really boring."