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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.
"And not even the worst thing on the table." He frowns at Finwe's chip. "Can you keep it somewhere secure, for someday if it's safe?"
"I suppose I'm not going to my planet right this minute anyway -" He cuts into his forearm without apparent discomfort, tucks the chip in, waits a moment while it heals.
"Suppose I should just go tell the contents of the bunker the tale in person or text it?"
"Don't know. Tempted to try evacuating Mithrim, the poor bastards, with a non-oath filtration mechanism, but - I should probably save it."
"No, he specified Elves. I should probably save it for a better organized and hopefully larger population, who are not rigged to explode, who I can load onto ships and get out of here before he realizes what happened."
"Depends on whether they're set up in such a way that I can run my check at a leisurely pace in advance and then load them up confident there were no substitutions, and on whether any of them know how to pilot or on how hard it is to scale up the lightleaper design."
"King's got people on the latter problem, and we have VR pilot training programs that are pretty good...you could insert a chip the Enemy can't duplicate in everyone's fingertips, if chips persist in not being dangerous for us although drugs don't work very well."
"If," Cam agrees. "Although the brain chips are secure for reasons I can't duplicate in one in somebody's finger."
"Could also take an unverified load of people off planet, take them somewhere other than our refugee planet, screen them there, and then take them on."
"Yeah, that'd work. Depending on how constrained the ship design has to be I could possibly lift off a whole city if it was fairly compact and not built on top of particularly rocky soil."
"Maybe you should stop by the bunker, then, and ask the engineering team if that can be done and/or if planetary surface takeoff can be done and which one they can achieve faster."
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