Would there be more than eight weeks' warning?

The trial's supposed to be after the war.

Oh, good, you had me worried there.

I'd be working with different priorities if I thought anything was going to happen before then!

You're inclined enough to indifference about your survival. What would you be doing?

If Doriath executed me unprovoked with no warning to you my father would attack Doriath. I am very interested in avoiding that outcome. Thingol's not subtle enough for it to occur to him to make it look like suicide.

Does he have anybody on staff who'd think of it?

If they knew I'd been in the hands of the Enemy, yes. Without that, no, suicide isn't a thing healthy Elves do...

I really feel like it should count for more that he did not let you go.

Want to argue the point with him? I'm not particularly worried I'm going to snap and kill anyone, I am worried that if it were known I was in a reference class that does that, someone would think of making it look like I did.

No, I'm not going to bring it up with him. It's come up in conversations with others.

My family ignored the possibility but would, I think, have done so even if I'd been released.

That was my impression too.

We have a family habit of willful indifference on some topics that's often quite dangerous but occasionally very reassuring.

...anything in the first category I should be looking out for?

Well, if the evidence suggested I was still in the power of Morgoth, my father'd pointedly not care. When the Enemy communicates with him he likewise acts as if he never heard it. That approach is not actually unexploitable.

Hm.

He looks down fondly at the Silmaril. If I see an occasion arise where I think it's harmful, I'll point it out.

Thanks.

Lúthien arrives a few minutes later. Sees Loki, blanches. "Hi. He said he was okay with it, in exchange for the Silmaril."

"And I haven't broken the illusion," Loki says. "Although I'm inclined to ask permission to do so, if your father has time to see me during my break."

"I expect he'd love to. Thank you." She relaxes. "How are you?"

"As I have been, more or less, nothing much came up in the past few weeks. Yourself?"

"Good. Mum's feeling better. Doriath's still safe. Sleepover offer is still open."

"Do you have an agenda for this sleepover besides 'be princesses'?"