There were inklings of it even back in Valinor.

Most kids idealize their parents, right? He had parents who are - hard to idealize.

I didn't idealize mine, but I guess...

You are very smart in some ways that are decidedly not Fëanáro's ways of being smart.

This is true.

I'm sorry we didn't get you out sooner. 

It's okay. Apparently my therapy license is still useful interdimensionally.

I'm glad. I sort of suspect they could all use it, honestly.

It continues to be really awkward to therapize people I have preexisting personal connections with but I will make it work.

An alternate universe version of Fëanor's children qualify for that problem?

Well, it wouldn't be in the official guidelines. But even if alternate universe degrees of remove wiped out all of the problem I am also living in their house and collaborating with them on the application of wizardry to stuff.

Yeah, true. Well, the others don't seem to need it as badly.

Yeah. If they ask.

It's okay to also deal with that at a pace that leaves you more time for your other projects.

Nelyo (it's slightly weird calling him that but it's what everyone else is calling him and, well, he doesn't care) had a time constraint, but yeah, I'd space it out way more for somebody else.

I find it worrying that he chose a job where it's very unusual for him to take a week off, but I guess that's harder to fix.

Some jobs are just like that in economies designed around scarcity and stuff - it might not have been the healthiest option but it's not necessarily the case that there were a lot of employment options that would have accomplished whatever he had in mind.

That is useful to know. And sort of upsetting in its own right.

Kinda, yeah.

Why couldn't the Valar have just - stayed out of everything...

The Valar do not make very much sense.

I kind of regret being too timid to try to get to know them on a more individual basis...

I was regretting not spending more of my time trying to explain us to them, maybe - maybe it was a close vote, maybe if they'd known a little more -

I had a reputation in school for being good at explaining humans to other species and I was too scared and didn't even try -

And then they totally justified your fears. Well. We can earwire them once we have non-osanwë earwires and if they get to a point of enough understanding that they apologize, offer restitution, and explain how they plan to make sure you feel safe around them -

That seems real likely.