She lunges for him, and makes a shuttle around them--

they're almost out, she can't--

she grabs his wrist

The shuttle falls out of the sky and simultaneously explodes from being suddenly full of a variety of explosives her world did not have and he didn't know his did either.

She's back in Hell. She's holding the upper half of his body.

Well, at least that plan worked, insofar as it could be called a plan. Now she has to hope she gets summoned back so that what she actually accomplished is "rescued Maitimo from Mandos' mercy and being stuck on Valinor for the duration of the war" and not "irrevocably separated Maitimo from everyone he's ever known and loved."

She cracks the skull open and retrieves the chip and shoves the actual body in a new freezer in the basement in case he turns out to have any preferences on what should be done with it. She makes sure to keep the chip on her person at all times.

It's a couple hours later. A summons specifically for her.

Oh, she was expecting it to take longer. She takes it.

It only took this long because it took this long for the Valar to stop delivering their fucking 'Doom Doom Doom' lecture, he's not exactly going to wait until they're back on Araman. He does it with a light projector on the wall and then fucks with the artificial gravity to make the wall the floor and then fucks with it right back, just in case this impedes Mandos in conjuring records of this illegal summons.

As a result he's lying in the corner when she appears.

Well she will also presumably belly-flop unexpectedly, which distracts her long enough that it takes multiple seconds for Maitimo to get resurrected.

"Where are we?"

"Six hours out from Araman, you were only dead for three. Eight thousand dead. Some Teler casualties on the ground, too, some of those shuttles crashed into buildings - we're all exiled from Valinor, no resurrections, may you know death by weapon and by torment and by grief may life grow unendurable to ye blah blah blah -"

"Wait, are we getting blamed for people they killed?"

"They killed? They didn't kill anyone, what subversive papers have you been reading? Maitimo here snapped the binding on his demon and she killed a ton of people before they arrived to save the day. The only person they killed was Maitimo."

She still doesn't even know private versus public thoughts are a thing, so the rage that coils through her mind is perfectly visible, as is the crystallizing intent to hunt down the Valar's catatonic summoners and end them.

"Be my fucking guest, but how the hell are we going to do that?" He hugs his brother. Maitimo puts on a headset and sits down at the nearest computer.

Well obviously she doesn't know yet but she never killed anyone, he snapped her binding so she could save people, how dare they, how fucking dare they.

She kind of looks like she could use a hug, and he didn't put 'no touching the daeva' in the binding. So. 

Hug.

We know. Everyone knows. We know you saved us. 

Yeah, he's right about her being able to use a hug. Hugs are good. She is a demon so hugs are going to involve her partner getting wing-hugged, that's probably novel for him. It's not about credit, I don't care if people know, but--that kind of thing--spreading lies to support the idea that of course you're a just and righteous person and anyone who disagrees with you is terrible--it makes her blood boil and her eyes well up, it is the source of countless tragedies, it is the root of so, so much evil. She is maybe dwelling on some of that evil right now. Like Grampa Jake's stories about the Holocaust when she was young and alive.

Hugs don't seem adequate for that, but he's not going to let go, either. Also, wings, that's kinda nice.

We're - there's evil going on so we're going to do something about it. That's all it really comes down to. All of those things - you know now that you're the kind of person who'd do something about them.

Henh. She already knew that. Or thought she did, anyway, she supposes there are a lot of people who think they are and fold when push comes to shove. The hugs are really nice, though.

Also super illegal, which makes them more satisfying. Fucking Valar.

Ooh, that's true! She experiences the emotional equivalent of making rude and likely obscene gestures at the Valar with both hands like they were paparazzi and she was a sassy celebrity who didn't want to get photographed.

Metaphor doesn't quite translate but he appreciates the sentiment anyway. "So, uh, since we're outlaws anyway, your binding's just 'don't kill anyone in a way that damages their chips and don't put me in a coma', hope that works."

"Convenient." She wasn't going to do either of those things anyway so for all practical purposes she's actually been summoned unbound. Gosh. She doesn't quite know what to do with that, it never happens.

Well, she will keep hugging this person who is providing hugs, because hugs are excellent.

"I should probably get back to work," he says reluctantly after a while, to the fantastic demon who brought Maitimo back without even asking for anything. "We want to get into lightleapers and out of Araman as fast as possible."

"You're right," she says, reluctantly de-hugging. "Thanks for summoning me, I'm really glad that worked, I knew it was important that he not get stuck there but I was worried that no one would think of it and I'd have accidentally deprived him of everyone he ever knew and loved and vice-versa."

"I wasn't sure it would work, but I thought of trying the second I saw your shuttle go down. You didn't happen to get anyone else, did you? D'you'know if your sister did?"