"Yep."

"I'm being horribly insensitive, aren't I."

"My feelings are a few million slots down on 'list of things that are problems related to my having black holed an inhabited planet'."

"Well, yes, but until we're out of Milliways and Aoide happens I can't do anything about those higher-slot things."

"Yeah, I'm just - not prioritizing self-soothing, here, I'm not going to get on your case for talking about it."

"That's alright, I'm used to having higher standards for my own behavior than the people around me do. Comes of being a demon who takes summons."

"Amen. So to speak."

"And I do not prefer to be horribly insensitive so if I am being so I would prefer to be informed for my own sake so I can teach myself not to do that better."

"I don't want to get into a habit of being precious about people being insensitive to me on this one..."

"Fair."

"But I appreciate the thought."

"I have the dubious comfort that anything Melkor might want my powers for he could do himself."

"Yeah, if he tries to make a deal with you it won't be for that."

"Given the forking maybe I should make it policy that if one of me tries to make a deal with Melkor the others should gang up on her and prevent it."

"Yeah, yours can't swear sufficiently bindingly, it'd never be worth the risk."

"I don't think one of me would try to deal with Melkor but since mind-altering oaths are a thing contingency plans are a decent idea."

"Oh? What if all he wanted you to do was unsummon the Valar in some way that he can't for some reason - and then he'd shut down all those servers -"

"...It wouldn't surprise me at all if the Valar are in some way a restraining influence on him and since he can't swear thoroughly enough to be satisfactory that he wouldn't just start back up again with the torture it seems obviously not worth it."

"Yeah. But if he came up with a way to swear."

"I really don't think there's any method of swearing he could use that I'd trust enough."

"Probably for the best. I'd worked out a way to verify swearing in advance, Melian helped - she's a Maia Queen on Endorë, if you don't have Maiar I wonder who's there -"

"Tyelcormo...does have a dog."

"...and what is the nature of the dog."

"It never occurred to me to ask!"

"Well, my one's Huan is a Maia, they come in a variety of things-they-do-with-themselves and that one decided to be a dog. Can talk, by magic-not-chip osanwë so I could hear it, but doesn't usually."