"All right, all I have on that is the Valar's assertion."

The point can't really be argued further.

Yep. Just keep not getting your opinions on the Men, various Elves. And then you, too, can hold adorable children and let them grab your nose.

Which is a very popular pastime; there are far more babysitters than people who require babysitting.

Elves will in fact pay for the privilege of child-borrowing!

Awww. The Men had an economic niche all along.

Maedhros does not indulge in any child-borrowing - "I already raised six" - but is happy to integrate Men economically otherwise, now that they're going to be here for the long term.

Good, good. (Loki's not particularly mad for children herself.)

Eleven years after the first sunrise of Middle-earth, Elves enrich uranium.

Congratulations, Elves!

They are going to need a whole lot more of it.

Loki wishes you talent, Elves.

The Elves wish Loki all speed on her teleportation with more cargo, since that'll be needed to test this thing once they've built it.

She's working on it!

Winter, summer. Forty thousand people now at the site out in the desert. They're spending their way straight through Loki's fortune.

She supplements it whenever Dwarves want things bopped around.

Winter, summer. The Enemy doesn't try anything.

How polite of him.

The Elves think they have enriched enough uranium. There have been some minor radiation accidents that required a call out to Loki for immediate healing.

She pops out on request. Boop boop boop.

But she doesn't have cargo teleportation yet, so testing this is going to be interesting. They could pick a spot in the desert, but the Enemy might see it. They debate just delaying until she has cargo teleportation.

Maybe she could bring it in parts and assemble it there...?

The assembly is - well, not the hard part, but certainly a hard part.

Well, how long will it take them to explain it to her so she can pull it off and what are they going to learn from this test?