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The grownups are all very busy, but the children are all bored.
Bored or having nightmares. But Tasárinon was not on a ship and did not see the people dying and has only heard it thirdhand and can't exactly have nightmares about the look in his mother's eyes - well, he probably could, but he hasn't - so he's bored, and he is drawing on the floor. It is an absurdly intricate drawing. He has been embellishing it for three days.
He's pretty sure that sneaking the kids out of the system at this time would. Where else should they go?
It can, a significant chunk of its original population is now in Brithombar. Or does Cam mean in terms of caretakers? Maitimo suggests Cam can give kids some of Valinor's state of the art virtual reality games, it's as good as parenting.
Cam can go there, then. And water them and tallen their walls. Would they also like to be rigged to explode.
Okay. He can wait a bit, let people hug their kids and pack them personal possessions and stuff.
The Noldor are unhappy and can't even soothe their frustrations by taking shots at the besieging orcs, because they're probably sworn to believe this is necessary or something.
"I'd also want to take pictures and video," Maitimo says, "so history at least knows, but our systems aren't secure enough for that to be worth it."
"Can you make one? If the locals want it; I'd want some documentation of the fall of my civilization but perhaps they don't."
They do.
And lo the fall of the civilization is documented. It is not necessarily expert photojournalism but it's something.
"I want to hijack Valinor's networks," Maitimo says when they're flying away, "and make every page load to pictures and video from Endore. Is this a thing that is conceivably doable."
"I'd need to know more about the networks. I can give you books on computer viruses but I'm not sure you want the Enemy to think of it."
"I wanna drop the kids off first in case at some point during these proceedings we are more enthusiastically shot at."
So they ferry the children to the bunker and Cam makes more sections and so many video games. They can have Earth video games too if they like. Wear themselves out playing DDR and Runaround and other non-language-dependent time-fillers.
The story of why there are now children here is not great for morale in the bunker. Not that falls in morale have costs in productivity, or Maitimo'd do more to manage information, but still.
There are in fact blessings of happiness if someone desires to be happier. No one really desires to be happier about the present situation.
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