"And also I think you're in charge wherever you're emotionally healthy enough."

"Yes, I would be."

"I called my Thingol and Melian 'their majesties' frequently enough that I was beginning to worry 'this is a sign of contempt' would wind up written on my forehead."

"I have no contempt for the King. He's done a very good job in every conceivable respect except possibly reining in all his evil nephews and that was a hard problem it was reasonable not to regard as a wartime priority. Finno's title is an important fiction, not an insult."

"Oh, I know Nolofinwë can do competent Kinging and I know you're not exhibiting contempt, I was just elaborating on how we are not title-using people."

"So much so that it bothered you that I was, or is that related to the thing everyone's not telling me?"

"It is unrelated to the thing everyone's not telling you, I just know a few details about the nature of your involvement at least as it typically goes and it makes it weird."

"Does 'as it typically goes' involve really excellent healing magic."

"Yes. I was assuming you'd already been covered, Gem's system does healing..."

"Yeah, I'm fine now, but it was four hundred years in the interim which I assume the other sets did not have."

"Yes."

...It's still weird but she didn't even say anything in the first place, did she.

He's going to work through his computer setup in Space Quenya.

And presently the Elves can control their computers with their minds and can be taught to use them and how to access their mailboxes and where to find sorcery spell text and stuff. The "Arda 3" directory is not by default open to Maedhros but Fingon has an option to mark it that way.

"...either of you given any thought to nicknames?"

"He should obviously be Dragon, and I'll pick one if I decide to stay alive."

"Second flying reptile in the bunch. But it's a good nickname."

"It didn't fly. I don't think I could have taken it if it could fly." He sends the memory.

"Oh. ...Stars that's huge."

"Yep. And we don't think it was fully grown, and we think he was breeding more of them."

"As I said, I think without galactic intervention we lose."

"Seems likely. Eru does not take good care of his toys."

"Seems too - delicately orchestrated - to be attributed to carelessness."

"Oh, yes, I didn't say he neglected his toys."

"So there is a possibility I'm in a different malicious hallucination than the one I'm assuming I'm in."

"...Don't follow?"

"If Eru's are omnipotent or close-as-makes-no-difference in their dimensions, and like making variants on this story play out, then even if I'm out of Angband I'm the plaything of some god's fondness for a story that includes everything that happened to me."