Well, that's great news in its own right and also probably means Mandos doesn't have their backups.

Or that the backups don't transmit between universes but he has them up to the point where they were dismissed, that's a worrying possibility.

Yup. Getting the Elves out of their native dimension: a very good idea.

...Well. That's...theoretically feasible, but would involve a lot of non-permanent murder

Worth having on hand as a backup solution, at least.

Yep.

Edie waits out the rest of the half hour.

And is resummoned.

"Good news and bad news," she says.

"Oh?"

"Bad news: don't ever try to install a chip in a living human, it will kill them. Good news: Forking works and there is now an elf-shaped demon me running around Hell."

"Ooooh! Should we grab her too - are you two actually separately summonable -"

"Well, we didn't both appear in the circle! Oh, and another of Emily too, would've been weird if I forked and she didn't. We decided ahead of time that the new ones would be called Ada and Amelia."

"Ada and Amelia. Okay. Want one on Endorë, one here?"

"One of each of us? Makes sense."

"Mind, I've got no idea how to convince someone on Endorë to summon you."

"Neither do I."

"If they have internet we could maybe get in range to fuck around and send them emails, but they're way below Valinor tech-wise, I don't know if they've got internet."

"Do you know if anyone else knows?"

"Didn't have it when the Valar last prohibited visits."

"Ugh. Valar."

"They had something resembling a reason, people were being awful."

"Are you sure? Because I'm pretty sure Alqualonde is evidence that things the Valar say about why they do shitty things aren't always true."

"...fair point."

"Which is independently worth the ugh even if they weren't lying about the Endore thing."

"Stated reason for the Endorë thing is that people were taking Valinor's tech and throwing their weight around with it. I don't think the Valar fabricated that people were doing that, it was pretty abundantly clear."