"Thanks."

"Congratulations."

"Thanks."

"I had a male bio-form in case you ever got sufficiently sexually frustrated but then the bats all died and there's nothing to feed off here and I lost it."

"...I'm flattered. But that is in fact not what I'm here for. And if it were girls are okay for one time apiece, it'd be round two you'd be out of luck with."

"What if I do different girls? That's easier - or, like, which parts make it count as a man, I could probably do combos - what in fact are you here for?"

"Different girls might actually do the trick, second question's a little much considering I am not in fact currently planning to fuck you, and I am in fact here to ask if there's anything worth knowing about how to tell one is in a hallucination via Morgoth and/or Thauron mind control."

"Hmm. Yeah. The Elves have that inconvenient total-bodily-control thing that's harder to spoof than senses or osanwë - one thing that works, though it wouldn't work for you, is that if you just have your lungs stop processing oxygen then unless he's paying really close attention he won't notice, and you will continue to be able to function despite knowing yourself not to be breathing. I don't think they ever found a way around that besides 'rip out the memory, try again'."

"Huh. Thanks."

"This is your pet Elf?"

"What a charming characterization."

"Sauron told me what he offered for him. Sounds like two people are very attached to the pet Elf."

"I rescued him and I will not be fully satisfied until he is fully rescued. The circumstances of his pre-rescue environment make it a special challenge."

"I know what Angband was like."

"Mm-hm."

"Other questions?"

"That's the only one that I brought. Can I get one of those haven't-lied oaths?"

"I swear that nothing I've said to you today has been untrue."

She stretches them contentedly and goes invisible again.

And is Maedhros where Loki left him?

He is. The Silmaril is clutched in his hands and he is staring into space.

Hey. She did in fact have and swear to a thing - And she repeats the thing about breathing.

I am not going to believe that but okay.

Worth a try. She plops down next to him.