He holds Idaia and hums and watches them both fall asleep.

Edie wanders downstairs into the bar, doing something on her computer.

"Hi."

"Hi! How have you been doing?"

"Bar, now how many worlds are there with published works in Quenya referencing a Melkor?"

The number has not incremented since you last asked.

"We asked. It was four hundred nine million."

...

"Okay. Is focusing on this going to actually improve your capacity to fix it."

"No."

"Is it unpleasant?"

"Yes!"

"Then maybe you shouldn't do it."

"I am not doing it deliberately."

"Fair enough. Do you want me to take over door duty while you go do something to take your mind off it, or is that unlikely to work?"

"Not likely to work, but thanks. I kind of want to index the Ardas by shiny-tree or normal or other and when in the timeline it is and so on in case we do figure out targeted dimensional travel, but..."

"But millions of them?"

"More 'I don't know if that's just an unhelpful form of dwelling.'"

"Fair enough."

She sits down on one of the couches with her computer, still fiddling with whatever-it-is.

"What're you working on?"

"Learning blessing design."

"What for?"

"Custom blessings for one's spouse is an Abbadon marriage thing."

"Awww.

...Findekáno's ridiculously good at that if you want debugging help or ideas or a strategy to pull off something complicated."

"Ooh, yes, that sounds lovely."

"Bar, can I have a book in Quenya that is titled 'the defeat of Melkor' or something similar, if there are lots of them can I have one from an Arda that has the most published works in common with my own..."