"Anyway."

Should I say something to Loki -

Uh, you might want to establish so Loki knows whatever you managed to explain successfully to your alt. Loki's protective of Cam.

Loki?

Mm?

We're not very confrontational people, she's not going to bring it up with him. If other alts of me want to come to the wedding party I should probably explain it to them too, you guys aren't going to be very good at explaining it to mes.

Okay. You'll have to invite them yourself if you want them to come, this is the only one we're acquainted with unless you count Elspeth having met the evil one.

I'll think about it. Shouldn't invite the one from Cam's world, but maybe the one from the other nice Arda whose war ended.

Shine, yeah. Shorter, earlier war, ended pretty clean.

Does 'clean' mean 'didn't kill tons of innocent people at all' or just 'didn't do it specifically as a deal with the Enemy -"

Skipped Alqualondë. Startlingly low-casualty war except for some Enemy-fomented conflicts between Nandor and Men that for strategic reasons Kib couldn't intervene in at all. The continent collapsed and orcs went extinct when the Enemy died, but there were a considerable number of survivors. Kib's been through the wringer worse than Cam, of course, but Cam would trade his war for Kib's in a heartbeat.

I can imagine how bad things would have had to be for killing a whole world of people to feel like the less evil option.

More people-instances than that were in Enemy hands and he was angling for a way to divert the backups from Mandos.

I doubt my alt knew that. I think - I think even before meeting Bella I'd have -

Well, you can ask your alt someday, if you want to know.

It doesn't change anything. And it might hurt her a lot, knowing that I feel like she could and should have gone to Valinor and convinced the Valar to help -

Up to you.

Thanks.

For what?

Stopping by. Bringing my alt. Saving the dead.

You're welcome.

See you later.

See you.

And Loki brings the other Lúthien home and gets her an audio-controls computer.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."