Seattle. It's a big city and the magical girls there don't try to kill me and it's where that potential who keeps having a crush on me lives. There's some witches there I can guaranteed kill, although I guess I don't need to prioritize grief seeds anymore. It's a long drive so I will pull over in a bit for lunch, I can get you food too.

Okay. I don't need food if it's any trouble.

It's not, I have all the counterfeit money time travel powers can buy. Selection will be slightly limited at a rest stop but I'm going for the one with the Cinnabon so there's that.

If you say so!

Cinnabons are good! And there'll be candy and chips and burgers and ice cream. If you're dubious about those, there will probably be nuts, not sure about berries.

No, I want to try your world's foods, not rudely stick to mine! I will need recommendations but I will happily have Cinnabons. 

All right, I can get you some of whatever I'm having then.

Cars are so weird. Roads are so weird. This world is so weird. She's more on the happy side of terrified and happy but that could still be the song wearing off.

I'd suggest putting music on but you're better at singing than anybody on the radio and I'm sure there are other things I should be explaining about stuff, just don't know what.

I can sing something non-magical if you want music? What happens if I sing at a witch, or can they not be turned back into people? How come none have eaten the world before?

They don't usually get that big, there's plenty of magical girls. I'm not sure how the big one did it. You should definitely try singing at a witch in case that helps! And you are totally welcome to sing.

So she'll sing! Something nonmagical but very beautiful, about Doriath before the war, when there was no need to guard the borders.

You've got such a gorgeous voice.

Thank you! The Ainur made the world by singing, in the first place. We speak of the music of Creation.

I'm not sure how one could sing a world into existence, but your world seems to have very different magic from mine.

Yeah, even the Valar can't turn back time. Or maybe it's just that they wouldn't - no offense, but it's kind of like erasing people -

I don't like it either, but a month isn't long enough for whether or not someone exists at all to change. Everybody but me's going to come out of this whole mess with one set of memories about this month. My job is to make sure they're a set that doesn't involve getting eaten at the end.

I think you're doing the right thing. But the Valar are more powerful and so have more options so probably wouldn't do this even if they could.

Good for them.

You're doing great. And we'll get a recording soon and then you'll win. 

If it works. Probably better not to do the retest while I'm driving though, don't wanna crash.

Definitely not. It should work, I can't think why it wouldn't. 

And then you will have a very interesting story for all your friends in Doriath.

My parents won't let me out of Menegroth for a thousand years, but yeah.

...that's a really long time to ground you for getting shunted into an alternate universe and helping save a world.