It's the first day of Junior year and Idaia's feeling pretty good. She likes her classes so far, it's a beautiful day, and she just has an indescribable positive feeling. Her last class of the day has just let out and she has an entirely tolerable amount of homework.
Her phone rings.
"Hello?"
And it has Tyelcormo's brother in it! Hopefully this will be more of a restraining influence.
Maybe someday they'll stop acting like adolescents, but I'm not holding my breath, she tells Curufin with a mental sigh.
They had a longer than usual honeymoon period the first time and they're probably going to have it again, he agrees.
Well. Yes. That's what we're here to talk about. Ostensibly, she adds, with a glance at their respective siblings.
"Tyelcormo, so help me I will dump you both in a swimming pool or something. Pay attention."
And will you be able to pay attention if we get dumped in a swimming pool?
"That sounds like something out of a fantasy novel, aren't we supposed to be normal -"
"Swedish," she supplies. "Means 'son of the king.' So I already told them that our best idea so far was relying disproportionately on Idaia and I for steering on the grounds that we are plausibly not Doomed and why using random definitely-not-Doomed humans as a random number generator probably wouldn't work."
"So the other question is whether the house of Húrin is doomed, and regardless of the answer to that the house of Huor shouldn't be - that's Húrin's brother in Colorado - and whether or how we can leverage them."
"We also had the idea of fleeing to and terraforming Mars on the grounds that Mars is plausibly not Arda and the Doom might not follow us there but it's still close enough that we might be able to kill Morgoth from there."
"Works if we have enough time, hard to say if we do - and the prophecy says the Enemy puts out the Sun -"
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