"I can extend my shield. It's not effortlessly sustainable, but it's doable for scouting intervals with people I like."

"I think my father's pretty close to unbounded working memory for the Marlatians, so perhaps that can be a stopgap until they're omnipotent six times a day."

"If only the Tesseract would cheer up it could assess people for potential to get along with the Mind Stone but I have no idea how long it's going to take it to get over the existence of locations it can't reach."

"We can always try it with space Elves on distant asteroids."

"This does still have failure modes."

"Such as?"

"It's the Mind Stone. It could easily choose an expression of displeasure that was not destroying the rock its handler stood on. I'm not even positive it couldn't backpropagate effects to other forks of the same person."

"So we find a space Arda that's out of neighborhood, or send forks out of neighborhood."

"Yeah, maybe. But it could be very hard to detect some classes of failure if it felt like being subtle. The Mind Stone is, itself, entirely capable of mind control."

"I wasn't volunteering. But if we ever urgently have need of it it seems useful to have a method for finding a handler in advance."

"Fair enough. The same method would work for finding someone who could handle any of the others, though, and except Soul they'd probably all go for nonsubtle destruction, and some of them can work a little sideways - the Aether is not really designed for free-will-related applications."

"Didn't think so. Maybe I'll ask my Space counterpart to assemble some people who the stones might like, whose forks can be temporarily put in Revelation or something, and who we'd trust wielding one if it happened to be a good match."

"We also still don't know if they beat daeva indestructibility. Should really get around to testing that."

"Are we expecting that if the Tesseract can't pull your wings off then the mind stone can't tamper with your head?"

"No, but we are expecting that if the Tesseract can pull my wings off then the mind stone can tamper with my head."

"I will eagerly await the outcome of that experiment, then.

...if summoners from a non-adjacent world die in a world adjacent to the daeva realms, do they get your afterlife, has anyone checked?"

"I think that old guy from Hex is still hanging on."

"Ah, well. It'd be a bit of a difficult decision."

"What would?"

"...whether to head over there, draw a circle, and kill myself immediately?"

"...ah."

"Elentári is by known routes three steps from the daeva worlds, and Hex two. Possible we should have more experiments set up."

"Yeah, if it fails to work I don't fancy explaining myself even to an Elspethed version of Mandos."

"Do we even know yet if Elf souls get to their respective Mandoses from adjacent worlds?"

"They don't have a way automatically, but they also don't stop existing. It was one of the first things I checked. After a lot of communication with Valinor Mandos agreed to make a way for them.....it'd be lovely if Cam could do the body and a soul could grab it and start functioning, but I don't think that'd work. Two-adjacent and you're currently just stranded, though I am not sure my soul wouldn't have my indelible teleport."