"You okay?"

"A little wrung out, but I'm fine. Seems like he has things under control."

"Yeah. He's very sensible, he'll take care of it."

"Good. And that was hardly awkward at all on an I'm-dating-his-ex level."

"I did promise you we were not consumed by horrible drama!"

"It's good to have that confirmed!"

"Eventually I will have to think how to tell my people what happened in Singularity."

"Yeah. Some standard explanation that makes sense insofar as it can."

"And that doesn't lean too heavily on the license my family has, I'm increasingly thinking I want to try to get that to change."

"Because it could be used for evil?"

"I've never really thought about making sure there are things I don't have the power to do, I trust myself. But apparently there are a lot of forms of mind control out there and alts of me who shouldn't get the same license."

Nod. "I would sure like a fully general mind control defense that'd be swell."

"Supposedly Mirror's Dwarves have it. Guess once we know how to take magic god Valar we can go to Mirror and ask if they're handing that one out."

"If it's hand-outable."

"What happens if you try to fork an Elf into a Dwarf, does that work? Edie was able to fork herself into an Elf..."

"Haven't tried it. Nor tried chipping a Dwarf."

"I really wish my evil alt were evil in the sense of running tons of deeply unethical but informative experiments, that's a way of being evil that I actually find tempting and then we'd have all these useful experimental results."

"I mean, I could try chipping a basement dweller dwarf, see what happens."

"But if it works then we have an Elf in a Dwarf body and they might find that highly unpleasant - not pretty enough - we are kind of a snobbish species -"

"I was thinking blank chip, see if it just rejects outright, before anything like that. I don't actually see what's so objectionable about Dwarf appearances? Humans are also shorter and beardier, Dwarves are just farther along on the short-and-beardy spectrum."

"How would you avoid anyone touching your hair!!!"

"I assume Dwarves don't have this hangup!"

"But an Elf forked into a Dwarf probably would!"

"Yeah, I suppose, culturally if not physiologically..."

"It's probably worth checking, because if summoning doesn't work in Mirror then it'd be good to know if we can back them up, but forking an Elf into a Dwarf seems very risky. 

...does Mirror have a Limbo, posthumous writings of Mirror's population..."