"Resurrections have temporarily been suspended." He sighs. "It's a mess. None of it your fault."

"...that sounds like it might be kinda partly my fault."

"It is a consequence of people starting to think about things like therapeutic ethics, which is because of the talk you gave, but the Valar responding how they did is on them."

"Yeah. But people staying dead isn't really better..."

"No, it's not. But it is supposed to be temporary. Perhaps in the long run it'll be better."

"Maybe." Sigh.

"And maybe we have to fix it ourselves."

"Maybe. Probably doable in the long run."

"Probably easier than undoing all the horrors that happened here."

"Yeah. By a lot. Thirty thousand years..."

He shakes his head. "Won't happen to our version."

Nod. "It's really good to see you again."

"It's good to see you again too! I would say I was in pieces with worry but I'm sure it has nothing on what you went through..."

"...I calmed down after I realized nothing was going to eat me immediately - and I wasn't worried about you - was worried about Fëanáro, had a bunch of language books around to distract him if he showed up and couldn't leave right away -"

"Clever. Would probably have worked."

"If he didn't get insta-eaten. I don't have a way to distinguish between 'the Valar successfully protected me' and 'turns out Materia only cares about science done on its turf'."

"The latter makes some sense to me? If it's being experimented on that Materia objects to - not that we should ever find out -"

"Agreed on both counts."

"I am not mentioned in even the long versions of their history but I think I can piece together what I would have done. I think after the harbor massacre I would have been unwilling to keep following Fëanáro absent any reason to think I could calm him down, which it does not seem like anyone was able to do."

"Calm was it seems in very short supply."

"But perhaps I should have gone anyway. Not being complicit in things is not a very good thing to prioritize."

"Well, you can ask the you here eventually."

"Once we're ensconced somewhere well outside the reach of any Valar."

"Yeah."

Here is Bella's place. She shows him in and collects her nonredundant belongings.

He compliments her magic and will carry things that require any carrying and generally is relieved she is okay.