I think interdimensional transit is likely to be pretty high bandwidth. You're probably the only person who can get us there who can be easily found; I guess we could hang around Earth looking for people who seem easy to work up about the Enemy and whatnot. I should probably make the jump anticipating a significant chance that nobody on that end feels strongly enough about me getting home...

After we win you can go around kissing girls and lots of people will feel very strongly about getting you home. But yeah, maybe I wish for the power to let people travel between worlds.

Oh, well, there you go, brilliant, that'd be very tidy - does mean we need to get another wish made on the far side to adjust the reset point but that's probably easier, it's directly strategic. And saves me from having to try to find girls who want to kiss me in a world where this is so universally frowned upon, too.

Yeah.

How much time has passed at home? Do I want to try to manage that at all?

You haven't been here that long, even if it's subjective-time-matched. Might make it harder to get clean results out of your wish if you try to cram that in.

Okay. I won't worry about it, then. Father wouldn't have started a war, just been miserably afraid.

Who would he have even hypothetically started a war with?

The Noldor, if he thought they did it somehow. But they didn't, and can swear to it, so there's not really much chance of problems.

Good.

I am assuming they didn't do it. If they did then I suppose I ought to thank them.

Well, depends on whether this is anything like the result they expected.

...okay, fair point. Though if they were trying to get me killed or something I might thank them anyway after the war's over and we've patched up whatever else's needed and I can leave with you for Mars. 

You wanna come to Mars, huh?

At first I was thinking I could just threaten to so Dad's give me actual power at home, but then I thought about it more and designing our own kingdom just sounds more interesting, Doriath's already a perfectly nice place and won't need me once the war's won.

Sounds like fun.

If you want help, obviously. 

Help's good to have! I didn't think of the 'wish for the power to move people between worlds' idea!

I really like being around you. Everyone makes me feel like I'm special but you make me feel like I matter.

Hey, without you I'd still be trying to become enough of a witch-hunting powerhouse to beat a world-eating abomination into submission on one, maybe two charges, slowly losing all non-time-travel-based social skills for the lack of interactions with continuity, you matter a hell of a lot.

It seems like we were kind of good for each other.

And if I went home I couldn't get better at reading.

I could give you books. Maybe you'd meet some nice Noldo who'd teach you their alphabet. I am not the only means to literacy.

It wouldn't matter to people, it wouldn't -

 I spent five hundred years in Doriath and I feel like I outgrew it in the space of two months.

Wouldn't matter to people?

They'd just think it was something kind of weird I did. You use it to think.

It might catch on in Doriath one day...