I love you so much and I have the best sister ever and we're probably not Doomed.

Maybe not, yeah. Let's hope.

And meanwhile celebratory kisses.

His wife has the best ideas.

And is absconding to their secret castle and celebratorily working on their every-room problem an even better idea?

Yes, yes, it is. How did she guess.

Possibly it is because she knows him.

A few weeks later Imliss comes to visit.

She greets them and hugs them at the airport and goes back to their castle and summons her dowser and curses when it still points to the North Dakota Silmaril.

"Woulda been too easy. Don't worry about it."

"I really hope it's not in North Korea."

"Wait, is that likely? Is that farther from here than North Dakota is?"

"North Korea is like five times farther from here than North Dakota is."

"If you say so."

"I do say so. I looked it up on the way here in a fit of paranoia."

"Why North Korea?"

"Curufin mentioned it as a place likelier than North Dakota for other people to find it and withhold it."

"That'd suck."

"Well, I'm reasonably confident that magic can help steal the thing without anyone dying if that happens but yeah."

"How would it do that? Dream an invisibility cloak?"

"Freeze open locks, replace the thing with a perfect replica..."

"Might work."

"Put anyone who got in my way behind a barrier of ice instead of shooting them..."

She hugs him. "Sorry."