Gem hugs her.

You can't kill innocent people because the Enemy says he'll spare other innocent people. You just can't. He offered us that choice all the time, because it means more to him, deaths at our hands while we're convinced we're doing the right thing -

The point wasn't to frustrate the Enemy. The point was to get the servers shut down and him neutralized in all the ways that mattered to everyone else.

By killing a whole world. People would've been expecting children. 

There's nothing that makes that right. There's nothing that makes it worth it. You could ask the people who were risking their lives, you could ask the ones in Angband, if they wanted a world eaten for their safety, they'd say no -

A whole world. And Valinor wasn't - wasn't just a world to us, it was also - perfect safety, people went there when they couldn't handle living lives in danger anymore, when the Ages were starting to tear them apart, when they couldn't adjust to change too well - a place they'd have peace, a place that would change at their pace -

Do you want me to argue or just listen?

I want it to not have happened, I want to believe if they'd been given the chance the Valar'd have understood well enough to finally take action, I do believe I could have explained it to them, but just like in this world, I probably only idly considered it, such an extreme measure when we weren't yet losing the war...

Squeeze. Haven't found a world yet where the Valar did anything before someone else did it. Maybe if we find an Arda that's not in our range or Loki's, Elspeth will go talk to them and that'll be how we solve that one.

I thought about it. I'm not magic like Elspeth but I'm halfway, I understand them, I could have sung it to them. Thought about it before the Noldor came, when it looked hopeless. Thought about it later. But I never did anything, I was so in the habit of not doing things -

I don't think Elspeth's been to see our Valar yet, if you want to try, see how far you could've gotten.

If I can do it I don't think my alt in that world will ever, ever forgive herself -

Squeeze.

Please if you're thinking about something like that talk to me in case I can think of something else-

Of course. Of course. It's never a first choice, never.

Shouldn't ever be a choice.

I don't know what to tell you. He's my alt - sort of definitionally if I'd been in his position -

Yes. I realize that.

Sigh.

I love you. I am really glad you didn't have to kill a whole planet of people because then I don't know if I could.

I did reset the whole world a bunch. And all its neighbors, apparently...

But if the - if the fluffs had offered you the wish granter in exchange for letting Earth get eaten -

...well, I wouldn't have done that, wish granter's kind of useless without people to make wishes on it...