Yeah. Wouldn't stop mine.

I'm sorry.

It's okay. I think when I go back I'll think about how to change it.

You could think about it in advance. You have totally been in some amount of danger since you got here and you didn't have me get Raine to send you straight back.

I'm sort of hoping that because of the time loop I won't have been gone for too long. My parents might die of grief.

Literally?

I think they'd try to hold on for the sake of our people, but that is a thing that can happen, yeah.

Huh. Humans don't do that. Maybe when we wish to your universe we should specify we want it to be without time having passed, except that's ethically complicated if it already has and we'd be erasing with an option not to...

Is it any worse than doing the time loop? We wouldn't be erasing too much...

This world was already in a time loop before I had a chance to consider the implications, and also sans time loop it will end. Looping a new world isn't quite like resetting this one.

I think you'd mostly only change things in Doriath, because we don't communicate with the outside world, and they'd most likely rather not have months of grief and anguish.

I would not expect to stay in Doriath; it sounds like a defensible position, not an - offensible one. So if anybody was doing anything much outside the borders...

Oh, you mean, once you come to fight the Enemy, you'll be doing things. We could wait in Doriath for a few months gathering information, if you're worried about disrupting history outside it.

I'm not sure if that's better, if things outside it are awful and I land in a moment when I could fix it.

But you're considering choosing to arrive several months later just so you can't disrupt things unethically! Arriving earlier and then disrupting things only if it seems better than not might be the best way.

Yeah time travel kind of fucks things up. You're probably right.

It's pretty weird. Where are you thinking of going, is there more I could tell you that'd be helpful?

I'd like to know as much as possible about the lay of the land before I show up to disrupt it.

I can draw you a map. I can practice writing the placenames in English, too, if you tell me how to spell them.

Sure, once we're not hiking. Hard to write and walk.

Once we get there.

There's not a specific 'there' in mind, incidentally, go ahead and stop us if you like the look of a place and it's been more than a couple hours' walk.

She finds a place whose look she likes after a while. She expresses this by running up to a tree and singing to it.

Bella is amused and sets up her tent nearby.

And then she'll ask "Eithel Sirion? Mithrim? Dorthonion? Angband?" and draw a map.