Edie was perusing the latest correspondence from her fork. She still should have been paying enough attention to realize that the door didn't go where it ought before it swung shut and she couldn't sense anyone else anymore, but she wasn't.
After opening and closing the door a couple times to make sure she hadn't just been abducted somehow, she looks around.
"...it seems really unlikely that Mandos is taking cues on how to screw up his job from you."
"I just mean that you react to everything about my world like it's the most appalling thing you've ever heard of and I don't really know what to do with that but I regret that it's the case."
"Ah. - I've taken to calling your world Mirror to distinguish it from Singularity and Abaddon."
"Earth media alternate universe trope, but, you know, more subtle and polite than naming the universe 'Evil'."
"Also perhaps we can figure out how to make it stop being evil and then it'd be a shame for it to be burdened with the name."
"Yeah, that was our cover story too. A self-deprecating laugh about how obsessed Elves are with sparkly things, and you can slide a lot of strategic value in under the hood. What do they actually do."
"My father thought he could have killed a Vala with them."
"He didn't have it worked out, would have needed some time to work with them. You could see if your versions can get anywhere, though you'd also need to acquire the Silmarils and they're in Angband."
"How do all of these things you're asking about play out in your world?"
"Valinor's a planet and Endorë's a different planet. When we die we can be reembodied from data about our brains, no wandering souls involved, and the Silmarils store that data about our brains and also ensure, I think by transmitting it interfered with, that Mandos doesn't have a copy at least of anyone on a planet with a Silmaril in orbit. No civilized nation practices slavery - do you -"
"The planets have suns and the suns are flaming hydrogen and mysteriously Quenya is still Quenya, to the extent we can tell within Milliways."
"And the Enemy's still the Enemy only worse, Findekáno said."
"Yeah. Well, worse in available scope, I assume the underlying character is similar."
"Yeah, I doubt yours are eviller. Does he release prisoners from Angband who think they're still in it?"
"Singularity's can't, no way to reembody people he's uploaded - Thauron tried to rope me into doing something that might have been that but I didn't bite - don't know about Abaddon -"
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