You'd need to heavily imply it was yours, she wouldn't do it if she thought it was stealing. But a library'd be terribly useful.

We could try again. Maybe.

She disappeared before I could ask if she did make me temporarily immortal, and if she did I agreed not to come back here. Might not be able to imply things about someone's books without going to Valinor.

Think it's worth it?

I don't know. None of the people in Toronto specialize in hitting very tough things very hard, I don't know whose I'd even steal.

And there aren't people you'd trust to help?

I don't think anyone would. They all have their own agendas and this is far enough away to be not their problem. I did briefly try to drag a few people into my other mostly impossible task.

If they'd be valuable to have as help we can probably come up with something to bribe them with. But they'd also need to be very very trustworthy. Is there a non-Toronto library it'd be more promising to steal?

That depends on what Varda would have needed to know to grab it. Presumably it can't be "the nearest one with a lot of books on this subject," and I wouldn't be able to give very precise directions.

Trustworthy and bribable both exist, but I don't think anyone is both.

Yeah, probably not. 

Valar are pretty naive but if you said "I would like the books from the nearest library with a lot of them" she'd probably realize you were stealing.

And it'd be tricky to differentiate the relevant books from the non-magic ones without giving away that magic exists.

So it probably isn't worth a trip to Valinor.

You can't replicate whatever trick landed you here, right?

I have no idea how I landed here.

Oh well. How long until you'll be able to tell if you're temporarily immortal?

It's gradual enough that noticing it not happen would take years. My years, not yours.

That's inconvenient, Lalwen comments. How long do you have in our years if she didn't do anything?

It varies. Around seven at the outside.

And Eru meant it to be that way? How -

- consistent with his other design choices, I suppose, in its senseless destructive stupidity.

He might not have had anything to do with my world's humans. For all I know the mortals he designed have thousands of Years before the senseless destructive stupidity kicks in.

If that's so then the Valar will probably be persuadable to lengthen your lifespan to theirs.

Of course then I'd have to tell them about Earth. But that's a problem for another– for when there are days.

I'm looking forward to that! 

Me too.

I wonder if it'll also have nights, Varda didn't say.

I hope so, I'd miss the stars. Varda'd be annoyed about no one getting to see the stars. Bet there'll be nights.

I hope so just because it's what I'm used to. Were there nights back when the Trees were working?

Nah, it cycled gold and silver but was always bright. She sends the setup.