Edie was perusing the latest correspondence from her fork. She still should have been paying enough attention to realize that the door didn't go where it ought before it swung shut and she couldn't sense anyone else anymore, but she wasn't.
After opening and closing the door a couple times to make sure she hadn't just been abducted somehow, she looks around.
"Well. My Valar are magic things. They're not immune to black holes unless they get warning. And Melkor really, really wanted them all dead and he can swear oaths and I can verify oaths.
And I can bring the Elves back - that's what pushed it -
The Maiar and Valar weren't chipped though."
"Worked. He's been quiet as a mouse. There's peace treaties underway between all the incarnate political units - they're rebuilding - I got the binary star system right on the first try and haven't done anything but put chips through a read-write machine and make bodies around them in months -"
"You'd have to come back to my New Valinor and my understanding is this would lose you the door to here."
"I'm probably going to need to fork more anyway. We should confirm we're from the same Hell, first, or at least that she'll be able to fork my twin once she's demonified."
"...okay, we could check our indices of mail sent to Fairyland in the last concordance and see if we're both on it, me writing my parents and you writing your sister?"
"It's probably also important if you'll be able to correspond with the rest of you from where I'm at."
"Yeah...not sure if I can meaningfully send her home with you if summoning doesn't normally work in that Arda..."
"Oh, it does now, I just didn't want to explain at the time - once the Valar were dead it worked. The dead humans and Dwarves don't have an afterlife or chips but they can summon. I think before that the Valar had some general interdict versus -" handwave, "stuff - that hedged out most summoning but didn't lock it down specifically, and then I showed up and they were alarmed and tightened it up so no more daeva could be summoned, and then -"
"Yeah. You can copy over a my chip if I conjure it, right, I don't have to dig it out of my skull again?"
"Yeah, although the apparatus to read-and-write it is a little elaborate."
"Bout the height of that server rack. ...We should get rid of these servers somehow."
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