"Maybe after we get the tech lecture."

"Tech lecture!" says Cam. "Fancy computer you can control with your mind is safe to get chipped with for humans and Elves, no extant tests on Maiar, if you are concerned you can come to Aurum and get Golden's precog to look at you but she doesn't work far away. I can also get you versions that do not let you control them with your mind; they are harder to learn to use if you are not from a high-tech background but don't involve brain surgery. You already have eidetic memory?"

"I do, Joy doesn't."

"You'll need that to use my spells, which are a comprehensive suite of healing spells and audiovisual illusions - nobody's quite as fluent with those as me, something to do with how I can cheat on the pieces of the spell snapping together cooperatively in my head, but you'll be able to do basics - the teleport, and if you need grace there's one for that but if you've got it sorted may as well save the hours of tedium getting the spell, and there's one for turning into a bird, also pretty optional unless you really wanna turn into a bird, learning to fly offered separately and for best results requires a Flat Elf who already knows how to fly because osanwë speeds that way up."

"Anything that's safe for an Elf should be safe for me on the computers. We can put the reset point right before you try it just in case, too. Should I get your teleport in addition to mine, what are the differences..."

"Yours might be better - mine you have to know where you're going, you can't find a person or a thing with it, just a place."

"Hers won't run down charge, though, yours could be saved for when you're trying to find something you don't know where it is."

"Okay, I can learn it. Mine might be more useful for planet-scouting than the one you've got, as you described it."

"Yeah, our current scouting arrangement looks like 'put somebody indestructible in a worldleaper, send them to a new world, have me or Cam find interesting stuff' - Cam can find stuff anywhere, I'm limited to within Edda but don't have to be so roundabout with it."

"Brought you an eidetic necklace," Cam says, offering one to Joy.

"Thank you!"

"You can just read the spells, but you need the symbols from a Flat Elf who has them already, or Elspeth - Lúthien, I can osanwë you them and you can bounce them to Gem. Elspeth was not sure if she should come because she's met your evil alt and thinks very loudly."

"Is my evil alt worse than Maedhros' evil alt because if so maybe I don't want to know just yet - especially if no one can think of anything to do about it -"

"My impression is that your evil alt has not had much opportunity to do evil; I don't know if that helps or not."

"Why am I not surprised that evil versions of my parents are basically the same at parenting."

"Yeah, I'm not really surprised by that either."

"How long does learning all your spells take?"

"Depends on how fast you read. Several hours per by osanwë but then somebody has to sit through it with you. Symbols thus -" And two hundred and nine concepts bounce to Lúthien.

And she bounces them to Gem.

"These are weird."

"They make sense to me but I had them lodged indelibly in my brain by a meddling artifact when I was pretty young for my species, so."

"We didn't get told your story other than that you'd dropped on the Noldor while they were crossing the Ice and that you were trying to figure out a way for your Maedhros to kill the Enemy because you do it using this grumpy extremely dangerous thing."

"Tell me where else you want mailboxes - one to a planet will do - and I'll go put those in while she regales you with an epic tale."

Gem tells him a good place on Earth and one on their Arda.

And Loki pecks him on the cheek and pulls up lovely illusions to illustrate her epic tale.