"I suppose if he decides he wants to try sailing to Valinor we could do that. Of course then he gets to explain how he knew to come..."

"And hope they don't kill him."

"I think we probably shouldn't recommend this course of action."

"I agree. I also don't know what it means for the rest of the world that there's fighting in Valinor. Maybe he goes there first and the world's safe. But."

"But some subset of us are Doomed so we really can't rely on that being the default course of history."

"We can't. And if he comes here first and then only eventually goes to Valinor-"

"Yeah."

"So, this was a lovely and heartening conversation, do the lovebirds have anything to add to it?"

"It might be worth doing to outsource more things than just 'scale immortality' to human labs."

"Agreed, do you have specific project ideas? We could just go public with our magic and hope things start happening, but -"

"But we still haven't confirmed or denied the existence of Elves outside of Valinor with reason to hate you."

"Exactly. Can you ask your friend if she'll help us out on that -"

"Daphne? Yeah, totally."

"And now that he's looking Nelyo may be able to find them. Harder to say what to do about them if we do find them. Explain everything, ask them not to torpedo it?"

"Would they know about the prophecy?"

"I don't know. Not if they're Avarin."

"If they don't that makes it much harder."

"It's going to be a hard sell. We are not very trusted."

"Depending on how and how much they're interacting with the modern world it might be easier to make it harder for them to torpedo this--make sure to get our side of the story out first and firmly, lean heavily on stuff like the Elvis thing and the we're-trying-to-invent-and-scale-immortality..."

"If we have time and have immortality ready, that'd go over better..."

"Yeah.

I don't think we can convince literally everyone, especially if the other Elves do also come out and tell people what horrible monsters we are, but I don't think anybody's going to try to try us for crimes committed thirty thousand years ago, and especially if we have immortality rolled out we can probably convince enough."

"Any divisions are ones the Enemy can exploit, though, particularly if they manage to reinforce or complicate existing ones..."

"True, but are we less divided in the relevant sense if no one knows we exist?"

"I don't have a good sense of how disruptive the truth would be."

"I don't know either.

If Imliss and I weren't here, would you do it?"