"I certainly think that we ought to! Your alt's an empress, do you want to be an empress."

"Yes I do."

"The only problem I see is that it doesn't leave us with much space for title escalation once we rule several planets."

"Hmm, true. I suppose we could make things up but they wouldn't have automatic gravitas."

"I might be able to settle for 'galactic emperor'. It's a shame the length of a day on one's current planet doesn't affect spell refresh, we could ask Cam for something that spins like a top."

"Would that be comfortable to stand on?"

"I have no idea, but one could teleport there, have a local day, teleport back..."

Snort. "Like one of those fairground rides."

"Shame it doesn't work that way. I didn't quite have the nerve to suggest our planet be made to spin faster."

"That does indeed sound like a bad idea, however tempting."

"Look at us, being all responsible. Do you think you can get an Elspeth with a spell or will that have to wait until more alts have been found, and the whole situation is understood better..."

"I think not understanding alts would interfere with spell composition even if I had enough working memory to hold a few universes in."

"Then we'll wait. No one can whine at us about heirs when we're immortal, now can they."

"No rush."

"Every other world the Bell wasn't native, got dropped on us. This is the only one where we actually found each other."

"Is this the part where I reveal that I'm actually a changeling from the universe next door?"

"It crossed my mind! But clearly there are some differences -" he shudders. "And we're not an Arda, perhaps yous just don't come native to Ardas."

"I feel like an Elf me would be - very awkward, somehow... I suppose there are humans in Ardas, and those Dwarves everyone is so enthused about..."

"It's the 'no free will' thing. You might be incompatible with not having free will. You'd probably be a lovely Dwarf."

"I wonder how they do at the collectivist sort of thing Bells are falling into. Seems uncapitalist."

"Is there a Dwarven post-scarcity society yet? It'd be interesting."

"Probably the Space ones unless they turn into awfully miserly demons."

"I haven't asked."

Once she wakes up, Elspeth goes to Vanda Nossëo, since it seems to be something of a hub for interdimensional shenanigans, and thinks loudly about the whole procedures-and-trials-and-such bit of the conversation with Mitros, to whom it may concern.

They grudgingly agree it might be a good idea to have procedures in place especially if it's true that literally the whole planet is evil. Can't execute them all. Maybe should just dump Maedhros' memories of forty years in Enemy hands on his evil alt, see if this makes him not quite so murderable.