"Your grace! Cam!"

"Most valuable things we can be doing with the ability to create arbitrary matter?"

"Public health for humans," he says instantly to Cam. "I'd ask about specific medications or malarial nets and so forth but I'm guessing somewhere in the multiverse has better..."

"Long term malaria eradication strategy is just killing off the relevant mosquitoes. Well, on my homeworld it was. I suppose here Valar might object to that?"

"I have no idea. It's possibly worth the risk, human child mortality rates are horrifying no matter what we throw at the problem and we have thrown a lot at it - the problem is that magic's not very suited -" he looks at Maitimo - "did you already ask about transit -"

"Not doable just yet. Asked for and received food."

"If the Valar are going to be annoying about wanting all the mosquitoes right where they are, Loki could eradicate the malarial parasite by Tesseract, and we can tell the Valar to fuck off if they complain about that. Not efficient to have her do that for every single infectious disease, especially if any of these humans ever want to travel and might need their immune systems, but she can do it for the big ones."

"Malaria, smallpox, are the flus too different to catch like that? Do you have anything for the general problem where mortals up and die even if there's nothing wrong with them?"

"Flus are too different to catch like that, they can be vaccinated against but you have to redo it based on predictive models every year. I can at least get you malaria and smallpox vaccines, bare minimum. And we currently have two excellent aging solutions one of which doesn't scale and one of which isn't portable, and imperfect ones that do and are."

"Well, that's something. Thank you." He looks back at Maitimo. Give me a free hand on that and I won't even try to complicate being resecured.

Only because you know it wouldn't make a difference.

He rolls his eyes and leans in so Maitimo can ruffle his hair. 

"There's also a lot of radioactive fallout everywhere, is that something you can do things about?"

...hair-ruffling. In front of somebody. Weird. "Uh, not me personally, but some people from Space Arda can probably be called in to handle that."

"We would be grateful. Uh, it'd be generically good to ship the Dwarves a few carts of something valuable and earmark it for public works or charity, they have very high standards for charity. Nothing else comes to mind immediately. Thank you very much for the food."

"You're welcome!"

And Loki comes back, makes eye contact with Cam, finds whatever information is thus transmitted satisfactory, and looks at Maitimo. There's a faint noise in the air.

"So the Valar say you've been keeping your Findekáno under mind-affecting oaths until Elspeth got you to swear to stop. Care to confirm or deny?"

If you talk and it's other than to be helpful I'm going to have to do a lot more permanent resecuring, later, he says to Findekáno.

"Contest the phrasing, really. A large fraction of our host including both of us very occasionally swore to mind-affecting things. They were never ordered to, and we always take appropriate precautions, most importantly making it time-limited and swearing not to swear other things while so influenced. You can use oaths to concentrate on a task - like, 'I swear not to be distracted from this for the duration of my shift' and under sufficiently extreme circumstances it can be worth it to do so."

"That's an interestingly evasive answer."

"If you want to phrase things in the most horrifying-sounding manner possible and then ask me for a yes-or-no answer I'm not sure what you expect."

"I could just go get my instance of you and let him figure it out."

"Great idea."

She vanishes to go find Maedhros.

He's in his office talking with a few people. Hi, what's up?

Found a new Arda. Shit's weird. Manwë is a pleasant conversationalist, it's bizarre. Something is up with the you and even with a version of the lie detection song that works on members of your family I'm not sure how to figure out what it is.

'Something is up'?

She relays Valarin accusation and subsequent evasive answer.