It's hours later when Loki and Cam bring Bella, Elspeth, and Jake to Vanda Nossëo and make it known to whom it may concern that they're here, news is available about the newest Arda and its adjacent world-with-a-Bell-in-it, and someone needs to relay Elspeth the spell symbols because Golden can't let mind-affecting powers including osanwë through her shield unless she trusts whoever is using them. And Elspeth wants to know if the non-evil Maitimo who was so upset is okay now.
"And say what? 'I favor executing you but I was at least going to be procedurally clear about it, instead of just letting you loose to wonder?"
"Yes, I think that if there is a possible behavior that will make us inclined to let him go or do something else which is tolerable to him, we should tell him what it is, and if there isn't then we should make it the case that he gets less of what he wants if he instead spends this decade giving both sides in the civil war that'll ensue when he's deposed nukes or something, and if there is no way to give him less of what he wants because we're set on killing him and he's purely selfish, then I think there should be another one of him at his side the whole decade."
"I'll pass that along. I think the thing he actually wants is his Findekáno being returned to him though."
"Is that an Elf thing because it sounds extreme even for an Elf thing. But. If he actually wants that which is tremendously fucked up I could probably do it. Especially if Elf Dad comes through on working memory."
"I don't know if it's an Elf thing. ...It's possible it was a sounding-really-dramatic-so-we'd-feel-sorry-for-him thing though."
"I feel weird about developing a memory-altering spell just to call his bluff but I will at least consider it."
"He could go to a Vala about it, I'm probably going to go to one to get something I don't want removed, but the Valar do not like him as much as they like me so it probably isn't an appealing prospect."
"I have all the memories the guy Mama usurped ever copied, and he took them from a lot of people. One of them was my dad."
Elspeth will tell the story of the vampire revolution! It is very exciting and parts of it are horrible!
He will be a good audience and be excited at the exciting parts and horrified at the horrifying ones!