"I am more of a malcontent than you."

"If there were any Maiar as malcontent as you the universe would be completely ridiculous and I don't think there are even any Elves."

"Well, there's the various Fëanors, but even those operate on Elf pacing much of the time."

"And kind of invent new problems for themselves as fast as they solve them, I get the sense."

"Yeah, there's that. I like Fëanors but they're volatile in addition to being malcontents."

"Sounds a bit nervewracking now that there's a horde of them with powerful magic."

"It might be if we ran out of interesting technical problems to throw at them, but we can find universes faster than they can resolve all the problems in them, so far."

"....and someday?"

"We do not currently have a secret emergency Fëanors-occupying plan. Except for the evil one they aren't evil, just prone to reacting badly with certain people, anyway, 'leaving them alone' is a plausible option in most cases."

"Okay, fair enough. Are there any secret contingencies in the works, we might mess them up if something happened bad enough to maybe be worth a reset -"

"They wouldn't be very secret if I went around telling people, would they? But no, I do not feel the need to issue any instructions about when not to reset or anything like that."

"You could tell Bella without the whole world knowing. But okay, good. ...if we find more Ardas while we're exploring how do we check if any of them are evil..."

"Maedhroses are good at sussing people out. Call one in if you're not sure. Maybe bring Elspeth to the local Valar and have her reasonable-ize them and then get a history lesson."

"Okay."

"Being sussed out was weird."

"Yeah, we don't have a lot of practice at it yet. We're, uh, hoping not to find any evil Bells."

"That'd be really bad."

"Yeah. Evil Fëanor is bad too, but he gets along with his alts and can still be set to useful projects and this... is probably not how it would go down if it were us."

"You think the evil one'd try attacking all of us?"

"Not sure. We might not even come in evil - we're good at making metaphorical rude gestures at social norms as necessary, so it'd be hard to transmit much evil culturally - and it seems like a lot of the personality might have to change. It'd depend on the details whether we could come to some kind of peaceful resolution, or whether we'd even be able to tell for sure."

"Okay. Thanks for coming. It was nice meeting you, Lúthien - are you going to pick a nickname -"

"I want to talk to the other ones first! We all have more in common with each other than with you, you're a lot older..."

"Will they wanna meet me or would that be weird?"

"I bet they'll want to but I'll explain things first, if they've never met any Bells they're going to think it's wrong..."

"Okay - did anybody give you a computer so you can drop things in the mailbox?"