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.
"The space ones can have him. There's enough of them to keep him occupied, too.
I'm sorry. I know I'm not really being very reasonable about the whole thing."
"I asked Findekáno to go land on some planet where we have an embassy and have been being lobbied to step in on one side or the other of the local civil war, be careful and figure out what to do, and he asked me how, since he had free will now, I meant to make sure he did as I wished."
"My alt would have him swear to take all the King's ends as his own until he returned home and chained himself to the wall again. When I got over being very upset I was mostly annoyed at my alt for being so lazy, it's not as if it's hard to delegate your goals without any mind-control -"
"One assumes. The kingdom's adequately run, it's not the sort whose king I'd be tempted to assassinate if I didn't know."
Nod. "Well. I suppose I can go pick up Evil Fëanor now if we're not waiting on anything in particular there. Do we have any inklings on a procedure for the other dead Evil Elves, or...?"
"If we don't give anyone on the planet interdimensional travel flat Ardas are not all that close to developing it with our native magic, I asked my father once in curiosity and he thought it'd have taken him a hundred Years - then they're probably better off alive than in Mandos and can't make things much worse for anyone else. I am worried about how my alt intends to maintain his handle on power when the people he assassinated to arrive at it are back, but maybe the Valar will for once be justified in saying the reembodied have to stay in Valinor..."
He flinches. "Wouldn't dream of it. When we met - he looked - reminded me of the time you came to ask me if I'd hand myself back over -"
He hugs her. "It's one of the things I admire most about you. It's - I used to think it was literally just my family, actually, who'd get handed an awful tradeoff and make it -"
"More worlds. More magic systems. Someday we will be close enough to omnipotent that it will never ever be necessary again." And then he might not want to keep existing, but.
"Yeah. Sure." Sigh.
She pops off to Evil Arda to see if Mandos requires much convincing to cough him up.
"I think he'll get along with his alts well enough, and they get along with the rest of us well enough."