"I realize you will certainly teach him if I die. He doesn't qualify to receive it now."

"I understood your terms. We can make more people spend time in acceleration for both of you."

"If that seems like a good idea, I can set up somewhere else when I'm working."

"We like having you here and don't want to be rid of you, trust me, but honestly I think that if we lost both him and you that's it, we lose. No one else is going to be able to reverse-engineer everything fast enough to understand how it works and start building with it, and we're postulating he has an attack that can destroy cities."

"It's possible that some non-Doomed person could evacuate other non-Doomed people to Valinor, which is another reason to distribute the alphabet more."

"Celebrimbor was planning to teleport and not go with, I think. But yes, I'm not saying everyone else is extraneous, I'm saying that one of the two of you is probably essential."

"Reasonable. I suppose I could move to Doriath."

"I hesitated to bring it up. We'd miss you."

"I'd visit. The question is who'd keep me company there, Maedhros can't run his projects from triple speed and Lúthien wouldn't like it and they won't let other Noldor in and I'm not sure who among them have things they can do in acceleration who might be a good conversationalist."

"There are many of them, I'm sure they have someone. Maedhros might know?"

"He would. D'you suppose I should inquire now or in eight weeks?"

"It'll make a lot of people nervous that you're leaving us for Doriath, I'd rather have the time to get them adjusted. Suppose you could check in with him now so he'd have the eight weeks to recruit if needed?"

He's talking with people, but finds an excuse to break it off after a few minutes. "I bet Loki only needs me for a second."

"Thanks. Won't be a moment." Considering moving here, would anybody find triple acceleration palatable enough to keep me company?

No one I've met, but I've been meeting politicians. I could probably find you something.

The idea is that it's probably not actually a good idea to have me and Fëanor in one place in case something that wipes out cities comes along.

I should have thought of that. Will you commend whoever did for me? I will find you someone.

Will do. Thanks. "Sorry to interrupt," she says aloud, and she waves to the people he was chatting with and pops back to pass on the commendation.

Amrod smiles faintly. "Thanks. So I can spread to people that you're moving?"

"That's the plan. If Maedhros finds me someone it turns out I can't get along with or something I'll have to come up with alternate arrangements." Sigh. "I wasn't getting a lot of interaction in with the Men anymore anyway but still."

"We'll look after them for you."

"Thanks. Please do not warp their distinctly non-Quendi culture too much."

"I'm working from Maedhros' playbook and he has eighty six different records of meetings where someone expressed unease over various Mannish depravities and he said eighty six variants on 'it would be very rude of me to suggest I cared more than you about defeating the Enemy.'"

"Well, in addition to defeating the Enemy I care about my adopted species and I will check on them and I do not wish to find that any of them have been called depraved to their faces."