"This is how Loki fixed our Arda once nukes couldn't do it."

"Saying I have good aim is sort of an understatement now I have the Tesseract."

"...nice. You're going to interview your Valar about whether to include them?"

"Yeah, I'll see if Aulë will have a word with me, I would sort of like to be convinced but I am currently in a state of requiring it. Aulë is the Vala I have interacted with who seems least personally obnoxious. Ulmo was technically more helpful during the war but... personally obnoxious."

"Do you want me to ask my mother if he'll have a word?"

"If you think it'd be better coming from her, although he was downright friendly for a Vala when I was mopping things up..."

"I wouldn't expect any of them to react well to being asked if they're worth leaving dead but I suppose it's possible no amount of formality in advance'd make it go particularly better."

"Yeah, that's my thinking. Although I was planning to phrase it as, like, worrying that the Space ones suddenly trying to resume their jobs after what will seem like little time to them but is a substantial discontinuity for incarnates will result in disharmony, how can they be encouraged to sit back and not try to do anything a little more emphatically than they usually don't do anything. Critique my diplomacy."

"And you'd do it at once but it seems wiser to wait until our Valar have pardoned Cam, so the other ones don't reawaken and immediately, amidst their grief, need to decide how to retaliate -"

"And the peoples of Arda are using summoning! Peacefully and productively! And they should not go back to forbidding that!"

"All of these things. The Valar have no idea how much bullshit manipulation they incentivize, do they."

"I sincerely think they don't understand incentives. Why does summoning work in Arda if it doesn't work here?"

"No idea. It seems like it probably usually didn't, and I was a fluke of some kind - that can't have been the first kid to produce something that would have worked doodling on the floor ever - and then the Valar said it wouldn't work anymore and it didn't, and then they got holed and it works just fine. It doesn't work in Hex either."

"And conjuring all of the summoning circles not from your home dimension and space Arda gets you..."

"I can't filter for practical validity. I will if I try to make that get kids' drawings that should have worked and didn't."

"But if it works at all, surely it becomes known and the majority from that world will be professionally done?"

"Not so surely. I had to make it common knowledge in my original world."

"Congratulations."

"Thank you, I'm very proud." Wag.

Awww. He's so cute. They're going to be so cute together once Loki makes up her mind.

"It's still not urgent but I and the nicer of the surviving Maiar will feel a lot better when the problem is solved, if there's no reason not to go talk to Aulë right now..."

"I can do it now," she says. "I'll do a colocation thing, I'll be here too to ask clarifying questions or whatever as necessary."

And she touches the Tesseract and she's slightly wherever Aulë is.

And he looks up at her and does a convincing imitation of 'troubled'. Loki.

"Hello. I'd like a word with you, is this a good time?"

I remember you as impatient. I can speak now.