"There's metal in my head. It's sort of like trying to smell your own nose except for all the ways that's an absolutely terrible metaphor."

"Well, it's useful metal, so hopefully you get used to it - if not, maybe there's a way to do it all with plastics..."

"I'm sure I will," she says dismissively.

And he sends her all the world-conquest plans and relevant information.

She spends a lot of time perusing assorted backstories and skims the world conquest stuff for relevance to her world.

The world conquest stuff is planning to skip over post-industrial worlds that do not have high-leverage local magic, except to hand out advanced vaccines and so forth.

Well, vaccines are good.

There's space for suggestions if she has any.

"I wonder what's left of my government."

"Emma?"

"Still sorting through documents."

"Sorry people suck. Persecution of minorities: some things never change."

"Sometimes when I can afford to woolgather I wonder if I'm beating my Holocaust survivor dad in terms of suffering. The answer keeps being 'no,' but."

"My grandfather was a Holocaust survivor," Emma murmurs.

"My Melkor had prophecies of the Holocaust. Well. At least one. Distributed it while stirring shit in Tirion."

"Wait, really? How does that work?"

"In which way?"

"Prophecies."

"Yes, but do you specifically mean 'how do prophecies in general work' or 'humans are supposed to have free will, how the fuck is there a prophecy about them'?"

"I did not know enough about prophecies to know that made them particularly remarkable. Doesn't everybody have free will?"

"...Not having free will is supposed to be the quality supporting non-chip-based oaths."

"...okaaay. Shiny Tree Arda runs off - really bizarre internal logic, I guess why not - what does it mean to not have free will?"

"You can make oaths and end up doing what you fated to do. As far as I recall. Dearheart?"

"It never made much sense to me. But - yeah, history's scripted, and Elves are - designed to stay on script in a way mortals aren't, though a universe of just mortals would still be deterministic - yeah, dunno. Eru planned everything from the beginning, I know that much."

"So we're all confused, just in varying levels of detail."