Fixing it might not fix everyone from it.

Yep. In a couple centuries at this rate we're going to be functionally omnipotent, I'm not too worried.

So the idea is we'll just outnumber him if it comes down to it?

He'll have access to far more interesting things to do if he gets along with us. But if necessary, yes.

Well, that's probably good enough as a prognosis to get him out of Mandos, at least.

Thank you, he says earnestly. Mandos is horrible.

I'm just predicting, I'm not the decisionmaker. It'd be awkward if any decisions depending on secret information came up.

Who is the decisionmaker on this one?

Consensus of Bells, I guess? I suppose you could try talking Mandos into it without them.

We might if we disagree with them, he shrugs. Or rather, Maitimo would try it.

Which Maitimo?

Don't know, and I doubt he'll disagree with Loki anyway.

Nod. Dwi's nonessential personnel in Aurum, but he doesn't have the teleport himself so I shouldn't strand him here. If you want to keep your alt company while waiting on Bell consensus can you give him a lift home when you're done?

Sure!

And he sets to eagerly explaining computers to his alt.

And Elspeth writes up a report attn: Cam and goes elsewhere.

And Cam tells Loki and Loki tells Maedhros.

"He's going to confront Maitimo about it and Maitimo's going to say 'oh, don't worry, it's not as if we were lovers', which will calm my father's alt down, and I will only be able to resist the temptation to ask Cam to feed the place into a black hole because, well, firstly because Cam wouldn't do it and secondly because that is also what I was prepared to say -

Sorry. Bet it's safe. If we can have him off-planet and heavily supervised and quarantine the place otherwise -"

Sigh. "Maybe start him not on Vanda Nossëo proper?"

"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."

"My first inclinations wouldn't be reasonable if it were me either."

"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 -"

"Presumably he did it other ways with other people?"

"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."