And she is back in Hell. And in a bad mood he sets himself to the tighter binding.

She retrieves the requested jewelry from Maitimo's corpse and disposes of everything else.

And she's back, and a minute later so's Emily. Would you like to accompany my people to assist in evacuating this planet? I will give you all our fancy technology and lots of music recommendations.

Sure.

Thanks. I think Maitimo's picked his emissaries, want to practice the local language with them?

"Which one?"

"Dunno, I'm kind of not very good at that sort of thing."

"Fair enough, I cheat anyway."

"My father's always wildly envied daeva that. Dunno why, he picks them up fast anyway."

"He likes languages?"

"Loves them. Finds them fascinating. It might cheer him up, actually - his father dying was really awful for all of us-"

"Well, at some point in the rest of forever when he's done learning Earth languages I can probably teach him some demon ones, I've actually done that before, some university's linguistics department summoned me to teach them demon languages, I think they had someone else they summoned to confirm my translations."

"Why, didn't trust you?"

"Enh, asshole demons who would've lied to them exist, it's good academic practice to confirm your sources. It's not even an arguable dick move like the gag thing, it's not like it hurt me for them to summon someone else for the purpose."

"I mean, sure, but we've literally lived our whole lives ruled by particularly evil daeva and we still don't distrust them as much as your people apparently do."

"To be fair the Valar do appear to be less dramatically evil than the angel who pulled the Furniture Incident."

"Melkor'd probably get on great with Lady Furniture Incident."

"Granted."

The chosen emissaries learn English. They're quick at it. Blessings for improved memory. "We've got five days," he says, "once we arrive, before it is conceivable that the Enemy could arrive himself."

"That's not going to be enough time to get everyone to agree to evacuate."

"So we evacuate them without their permission, or we hope like Hell the Enemy doesn't notice - we can at least have the ships positioned to destroy anyone who leaps into the system after us, and keep destroying any ship he makes, but that does not buy us very much time..."

"And the Enemy knows where they are, so the people on the Moon and Mars aren't safe either..."

"Once the Enemy's dead they're safe. The Enemy, if he does show up here, will at least be constrained by the fact that if he does anything sufficiently awful we've got no reason not to trigger the planet, we trigger the planet."

"Right. I'm concerned about orders he might have left his orcs and so on, though."

"Likewise. We could dispatch half the fleet to Endore to do something about that if we had anything short of genocide to do about that."