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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.
"You will it the same way you willed the dot across the screen; it's got a transponder keyed to you."
"You're welcome."
Okay, on the strength of nothing having happened immediately to this guy does anybody else want one, Cam cannot guarantee it will not have weird longer-term effects but it's not having any short-term ones?
,,,maybe if he comes back in a few days? If he's sufficiently sure the city will explode violently enough to destroy them all anyway.
Should've thought of that before. He goes and gives the other city phones too. And then he heads to Brithombar.
Where the President has assembled a diplomatic mission for him, and also the Valinor Elves have offered to help with medical things and have been a good deal of help but if he wants to do blood for transfusions and copy lots of local drugs it'd be much appreciated.
He will happily top off their medical supplies before he ushers his diplomatic escort into the shuttle and flies to Doriath!
Forcefield is still up! They can still approach the tall concrete wall that must be mostly for show because forcefield.
On the way Cam gives them the transcript of his last conversation with Doriath. Do they have advice?
"Well, whatever disaster happened in Valinor is going to have Elu really angry. Most people here have cousins who lived in Alqualonde. ...you could summon a list of the dead so people could check, but I'm not sure if that'd be more inflammatory than useful."
"Maybe a list of the reembodied would go over better? If any of them have been; I won't recognize any names..."
"Oh, good idea. Though they'll guess if you have a list of the reembodied you must have a list of the dead. Also I think they're at least as bothered by what it implies about the newcomers' personalities. Elves don't kill people unless something's very, very wrong with them."
"If someone's trying to kill you, and your family, and your whole race, it doesn't say much about you if you have to kill them to stop them. I am guessing the people of Alqualonde didn't randomly try to kill the newcomers or they'd have mentioned that."
"The Federated Falas had three killings in the five centuries before the war. Two of which were self-killing."
"We would have been surprised if Valinor's was higher, because, you know, Valinor, but it wouldn't have been a 'Doriath seals its borders' thing. What they did is unprecedented.
They also don't seem very sorry."
"Yeah. Anyway, Melian will probably aid you anyway, though she's going to strongly advise against parley with the Enemy and probably mistrust you if you go to it, assuming the Enemy got a chance to bribe you and might have succeeded."
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