Things shall be installed! A lot of the locals are confused about the Things but the response is overall tentatively positive!

Great! What does the Empress think is next?

Well, this is clearly not going to be an international relationship with normal trade relations, but is there anything Kilaiuossa can do for the Noldor?

They are excited you can dreamshape magic items, what has been demonstrated possible with that?

Lots of things, does he want an offhand list of examples or to ask if any particular thing is on the list or for them to see if someone's made an exhaustive study?

"Of particular interest would be things that do properly instantaneous communication, for a sense of 'instantaneous' that you might not have instruments precise enough to measure while the speaker and listener are on the same planet."

They can do instantaneous-to-them communication but have no way of knowing if it breaks lightspeed.

"So that's one thing we'd be interested in checking."

A volunteer can be found.

They can make some more precise timepieces so they don't even need to go to space to test it.

The volunteer is impressed and also wants to know if anyone has ever warned him that he has a weapons-grade smile.

"This is a pretty satisfying job." And do they have magic FTL -

Yep! The volunteer has magic ansibles.

Cool. "We should check if these work across dimensions."

"Milliways confounds all the experiments, at least potentially, but yes."

"It really does, doesn't it." They ask the dreamshaper to hold them for another few hours. "How best to check this -"

"Assuming Idaia and Imliss can both consistently get doors here it's safe to have one of them here with the door closed, I think, need to check with Bar. Can rope in some Singularity Elves, same deal, see if we can go world to world with the door closed."

"Won't time be stopped in one or the other world -"

"Depends how the ansibles work. They're not nearly as good to us if we can't simultaneously maintain bar access anyway."

"Fair, okay." And they shuttle back on over to confirm with Bar that it's safe to have Imliss here with the door closed -

Results are as always not guaranteed but if Idaia can get doors to the place she will retain this ability.

Hey, is Idaia free?

Why?

We're fixing up her home world and could use her help on something.