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Loki parks in Doriath for another six years. She manages to make friends with some of the people who have things to do in accelerated perception. The Men who started as babies are full grown. The spell comes along and she refreshes everyone serving as a sorcery backup on a routine basis. She visits people between stints of work; during same she does things that she doesn't have to move around much to do. Writes a memoir. Screws around with decorative illusions. Sleeps, when absolutely necessary.
She's asleep when the quake hits. But not for very long.
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purposeful_glory
"Not the one that was issued, though."
purposeful_glory
She will come back to this when she's gotten as much as possible out of his cooperation. "What's the story with the orc souls who went to Morgoth and not to you, did they revert to you when he died or are they just around somewhere?"
"Around. I cannot collect souls. I can offer them reembodiment if they come to me, and I can make it known to them how to reach me. You can also try reembodying them directly, though I'd expect that to be wrenching and difficult, depending what he was doing with them."
purposeful_glory
"I don't have an easy way to make bodies for them, let alone correct bodies. I could fetch you the souls if that seemed like it would a more efficient way to get them alive again than doing it myself."
"No, I mean, I object to the fetching of souls. They have the right to choose whether to come to me."
purposeful_glory
"They were told that you'd torture them forever when they died, that probably didn't help."
"You are welcome to communicate to them that this is untrue."
purposeful_glory
"I don't actually have osanwë of my own, neither do orcs, I don't know if that works on dead souls anyway..."
"You can - move them closer, if you like. Close enough they can speak to anyone they know who is in the Halls. But I cannot take custody of the unwilling; it would go against my nature."
"Perhaps with time."
"No. You would have to ask Aulë."
purposeful_glory
Which one's Aulë. Well, the one she's looking at now. Well?
"You should already be able to find them; their next life is a world they can build their civilizations to even greater heights in."
There is a planet! A round planet! It has Dwarves. They have fantastic systems of commerce and are building lovely underground cities.
purposeful_glory
"You know," she says, "I really like your design sense, Dwarves are great and I have no complaints about this afterlife at all."
"Thank you. Will they eventually invent the means to reach the rest of the stars, or is there a dimensionality barrier there? If there is I shall have to give them the tools to solve it."
purposeful_glory
"My interdimensionality solution involves magic. There may be a tech avenue but I don't know of one if there is. I can look it up and let you know later."
"I appreciate it. Thank you for befriending them and dealing fairly with them. I am in your debt."
He nods evenly.
"Ents cease to exist on being destroyed."