Odette bursts into applause. "That was amazing!"

Loki takes a little bow. "Thank you. Maedhros threw me a party, there were werewolf popsicles."

She laughs.

"Pity you're not an Elf, it just occurred to me I could - I suppose I still could, it would just be even more tedious without osanwë -"

She taps beside her glowing silver eyes. I can copy desirable elf-attributes if I want.

"Oh, nice! Osanwë was so great once it was explained to me how to keep private thoughts - okay, so I have this eidetic memory necklace, which unlike the Tesseract I do bring everywhere. My spells can be used by other people; the problem is other people will not naturally remember them or find them meaningful. Eidetic memory solves the first problem. If you want to sit here for a week being really bored I can dump all my spells in your head and send you off with my necklace, I can get another one."

"Sitting here for a week being bored sounds ironically incredibly appealing! I can give you osanwe too, if you want, I did for my sister."

"Is it also a learning curve to avoid involuntarily listening to people, or is that as pure upside as it sounds?"

"I've never had a problem with it."

"Then I would be delighted, I got so used to being able to fling ideas and images at people that it was weird going home and not being able to do the same with my sister. This even though I knew intellectually that it was an Elf thing."

"I haven't been handing it out willy-nilly because, again, listening thing--even if it's not hard I'd still have to, you know, trust they wouldn't do it on purpose--but it's really, really great."

"I am definitely not going to go around reading people's minds without permission."

"I didn't think so or I wouldn't have offered."

"Do I need to do anything...?"

"Nah." Run over the necessary factors compose action suggest--"done."

Thanks!

You're welcome!

Okay, so my spells are one for grace, a suite of them that do jointly comprehensive healing, the illusions - if you've got Elf eyes that'll help a lot, it's mental-image-based, mine looked all fake without ultraviolet and infrared until I got a pair of magic goggles - turning people into birds, and teleportation, which now goes interdimensionally. You probably don't need the grace one, although I'll throw it in if you've got a use; I only invented it because I was really clumsy as a kid and for cultural reasons needed to learn to handle sharp objects. Hopefully they can reverse-engineer the eidetic memory necklace, and I don't know how long that will take in the presumable absence of a live Fëanor but maybe Curufin can do it. You will have to wear it to remember the spells, but it is retroactive so if you take it off for a bit you'll have them again when you put it back on, but while there's only one you won't be able to remember the concepts to transfer them at the same time as someone else can remember them to absorb them. The spells I can give you as written copies, though reading them is much slower, but the learning to understand the symbols part requires osanwë.

I can actually duplicate magic items, limited by complexity, but I suspect this is prohibitively complex for now. I don't personally need the grace one but if we're only going to meet the once and I'll be able to distribute them at some point I'll take it in case I meet someone who does.

Yeah, seems wise. I didn't wind up gracing anybody except like a few random Men - how are your Men doing? - but you may have different applications. She takes her necklace off, gives an odd shiver, and hands it over.

She puts it on. Well, my sister ended up founding a human kingdom because most of the humans were elf vassals and this was problematic. Also, um, be careful of Finrod, in my world he did this thing--she explains the Beor situation.

Oh dear. I don't think he'll have a chance to do that in my version. When I found the Men they were three weeks old - they had a language and they could gather food and such but they were just - they were so completely new - and Sauron was fucking with them, that's when I first fought him, and when he was gone I moved into his house and sort of adopted the species because their Elf neighbors didn't want anything to do with them and Eru does not know how to take reasonable care of his toys. I had a few Elves along for logistics help, osanwë relays, better eyes, etcetera, but I was very clear on the "defenders and consultants not rulers" thing. But I'm glad Finrod's faction was not the one I wound up taking with me, anyway, it was proposed, he was so terribly curious about Men... He's very friendly, donated me some songs, I wouldn't have expected it though I'm not astonished.

I haven't personally met him yet. Oh, if you end up with an Andreth--she sends the face and a scattering of memories of her, including the one where she admitted to having a massive crush on an elf--and she and your Aegnor fall in love, please try to discourage him from being an ENORMOUS TEENAGER about it.

I'm not well-acquainted with Aegnor and I'd be surprised if Men who knew in the first few months of their existence where babies come from and got actual birth control before their second generation was fully grown have the same descendants that far along, but, uh, noted.

I don't think it's particularly likely, but it's also possible that he'd fall in love with a different human woman and be an enormous teenager about her. Although introducing birth control might prevent him from deciding that obviously she wants kids so he should leave her so she can have children with someone who isn't a species that never has children in wartime.