"...Okay."

"Maitimo summoned me to make light-leapers, we went down to the planet--I had to go with him, they have laws about the bindings you have to put on daeva and one of 'em's 'stay within a certain distance of your summoner at all times'--and the Valar said no one was allowed to leave so we all made for Alqualonde, which is a spaceport. They'd have alerted the Valar if we let them. Maitimo extracted a reasonable set of oaths from me and snapped my binding. I put the population of Alqualonde to sleep. The Valar found out and showed up anyway and killed a bunch of people trying to get me sent back to Hell and the remaining Noldor prevented from leaving, then claimed that I'd killed everyone, except my summoner who they'd obviously had to kill to stop me."

"You chipped yourself to do oaths?"

"Chipped myself to do telepathy, found out about the oaths after."

"Can your Valar do oaths? In a way you could really, really count on."

"I reeeeally doubt it. I don't think they're even chipped, let alone chipped and then sworn not to ever let the oath-enforcing function of the chips be interfered with."

"Okay, then I continue to not have war-ending suggestions."

"Do you have suggestions for getting a bomb out of the earth?"

"How hair-trigger is it? Could you dig down a ways, surround it with keratin attached to you, and set it off?"

"Ooh, good question. So far our best idea was to get enough trustworthy daeva to split the earth in half minus a sphere around the thing, get it out and far away, fill in the hole with appropriate matter, put the planet back together and set it back in its correct orbit."

"...yeah that sounds like a disaster. Surrounding it and blowing it up sounds like a potential disaster - if it's a planetbuster but shaped it could knock your whole keratin bubble in one direction and wobble the planet - do you have enough time to try a dummy version? Sounds like there's not room for it in Milliways."

"We think Melkor doesn't know we know yet."

"So you could make a model of it, try bubble-and-boom, see if everything on the surface is still standing."

"Yeah, that's how we found out it won't stand up to angelic interference."

"That's impressive, does that hold if you have lots of angels at once?"

"Haven't tested that."

"If you had enough angels they might be able to work simultaneously enough - but that seems difficult, fingernail thing's easier if it works."

She conjures a model of Earth about the size of a beachball. She tries growing keratin into it. It explodes in her face.

"Yikes. Maybe if you did it farther out? He can't have made it so it explodes if any plausible stuff happens on the crust, he doesn't want it exploded and people are going to drain aquifers and mine diamonds, continents are going to drift..."

She tries again. It explodes again.

"What does the bomb mechanism alone look like? If it just blows up if you try it maybe there were blueprints once?"

She conjures the plans.

Cam peers at them to figure out what they can sense and where and how sensitively.

"A lot" and "very sensitively" respectively, apparently. Theoretically the keratin-bubble could at least sort of work but the charge is shaped.

"Shaped charge. Well damn."