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?"
"Six weeks isn't that long. It's vanishingly unlikely the problems start in the next six weeks - unless, I suppose, us discovering them is what somehow triggers them -"
"I feel like that doesn't quite feel stylistically accurate but I can't really articulate why."
"It seems like it'd be appropriately poetically horrible to me, but who knows."
"I feel like it would be too...predictable? If things had gone horribly wrong before we figured out they were going to that would make more sense."
"I'm thinking that, for example, we attempt to take some preventative measure, expecting this'll help save us, and it turns out to be what gives him an opening."
"No idea. Digging up a Silmaril if we find one, maybe. Attempting to take over the world."
"I would understand the risks better if I understood the mechanism of his imprisonment better, I think."
"Fingers crossed that Idaia and I aren't Doomed and that suffices to carry us through."
"As long as it isn't covering for some worse actual fate like Morgoth not dying."
"I mean, I do hate to be even more pessimistic than necessary, but the prophecy claims he dies from being stabbed. With a sword."
"Is there any actual explanation for how this is in any way plausible?"
"You can do a lot with magic. It is not impossible to me that a sword could be enchanted so as to injure a Vala. But - bullets would be easier, if it's doable with swords..."
"Well, not with bullets, presumably, but I'm assuming when you said 'easier' you meant easier to deliver to target once created not easier to create."
"Yes. We don't know how to do it. The prophecy says the battle is in Valinor; maybe someone there has figured it out in the last 30,000 years."
"Do I even want to know how Turin's supposed to get to Valinor?"
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