I think you've surpassed Kilaiuossa pretty thoroughly in every area possible in the past thirty thousand years.

We don't have dreamshaping, I don't think anyone's been playing with its applications.

Yeah, that's true.

I'm so, so glad that you're okay. That everyone's okay. I thought--

That we were remarkably vivid hallucinations informed by all our public appearances?

Well, yes, but before that--before I died--I thought you were all going to fall victim to Morgoth and to Mandos' fucking curse.

We thought that too. I guess the Valar are as ineffectual at cursing as at everything else.

Yeah.

I love you. I'm really, really glad you got to be King.

I love you. I'm really really glad you get to be alive.

Yeah. Me too. I'm so lucky--out of all the people who ever died, I get to come back, me and my sister, and--our new family's really great--and--

We shall have to study the phenomenon and figure out how - why - whether we can get anyone else -

I have no idea how to even start studying it.

Nor do I but we only learned of it a few days ago.

Yeah.

Thanks for making time to see me without anyone else around.

I have thirty thousand years without you to make up for.

I can't even really imagine thirty thousand years.

I am not sure I can help much, there. 

Yeah.

It just--kind of makes it hard to engage with--having been dead that long.

You have all the time in the world. You don't have to slip back into place perfectly poised, you can give yourself whatever you need -

I know. I just--I'd feel better if I knew what my place was to go back to when I was ready.

Do you know what you'd want it to be?

I don't think I do. I--I don't know anything about anybody that isn't the same as it was thirty thousand years ago or public knowledge or both, and I don't know what's still true or not in the former category if it doesn't happen to be in the second--

There's lots of work to be had running the country if that's what you'd want to be doing.

No, probably not. Not in the near future, anyway. I want to focus on my studies and my magic for the next while on that level.

...It's not so much what I'm going to do in general that scares me, it's--how well I'll fit back into our family.

That I would like you not to worry about. There's been an empty place in our hearts a long time.

Okay.

I love you so much.

It's just--the last time--I lost someone--

...It's just sort of hard to--believe I actually get to come home this time...