Bella wakes up in the hospital.
She is not critically low on gem clarity, so she has the next two hours to herself to think as long as she doesn't make noise, which she doesn't, and foxes all the monitors attached to her real quick before they beep, which she does; she could go out the window but she has no plans for this loop which require her to skip town. She clicks her heels together and gets into her costume and pulls out a notebook to organize her itinerary.
But not an Elf?
What do you want?
What do you want from us?
Confirmation that the Enemy's dead. Any other information I might need to work out the peace-happiness-prosperity thing with respect to you guys. Why did it matter if I was an Elf or not?
Melkor is dead. We swear to serve Melkor and now we're loose of that. We also swear to hate and kill Elves and bring them to Angband as prisoners, and we're still sworn to do that.
Well, that's going to be really inconvenient. Who counts as an Elf?
...Elves? You don't look like one, she only sort of looks like one, but they're not hard to miss in general...
How about somebody who isn't technically an Elf but uses a body that looks like one?
Oh. Those aren't Elves.
Interesting. There's going to be more of those around in the future, be advised. I assume you wouldn't want to think you were attacking an Elf and be wrong.
I mean, people who look like Elves are still probably Elves.
Historically, sure, but I can turn Elves into technically not-Elves and have already done this today.
...okay. That's a good idea. You should do it to all the Elves. Elves are terrible.
You probably think that because you swore to hate them, she points out, but I am likely to do it a lot anyway.
No, even aside from that. They murder us every chance they get.
...they probably do that because you swore to kill them, she says, seems only reasonable.
It is communicated that the orcs believe very strongly the Elves started it.
Well, that's as may be but my understanding is that they're capable of stopping it and you aren't.
Are you going to make them stop?
I'll be looking into it but I'm not going to ask them to forego self-defense.
Are they going to sweep in here and kill us all now that Melkor's gone and can't protect us?
It seems like the kind of thing they would do. They really like killing orcs. They even kill baby orcs who haven't sworn anything.
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