"It's kind of weird that you're so casual about that."

"I think it must be a cultural thing. You're pretty comfortable with the idea of alts, right?"

"I like having them, but I also don't control whether I do or not, and I could understand if someone didn't like having them."

"Well, people who don't want forks don't fork. I don't think I will do that for Warp, though, just have a rotation of a year or so."

"We'd be happy to have some consultants in. It's a big project and we got found pretty early in it."

"It's an impressive project! We will be happy to throw some talent at it!"

"Why a year or so at a time?"

"Going to have a hard time asking people from here to become citizens of a nation ruled by two of Cam's alternates. They'll be happy to be as helpful as they possibly can, but - as our people who are visiting."

"Oof."

"I'm sorry. Someday - but someday as the Elves count time."

Nod. "I'm not really looking forward to explaining that to Epic. - That's what my Fëanáro named himself."

"Keeping it a secret will probably make it worse when he does find out."

"Yeah, that's part of why I'm not looking forward to explaining it as opposed to planning to skip it because it sounds like a bad time."

"You are welcome to ask one of my dads for suggestions.

We helped him do it."

"Loki mentioned. I'm not sure it'll help but I'll ask as long as I'm here. For context - my Valar gave me prophecies about Fëanáro, Alqualondë among them - I kind of freaked out - and now I'm probably going to look like a hypocrite or like he can't trust me or something."

"Well, you'd have equally freaked out if you saw a prophecy you'd feed an inhabited planet into a black hole, right? There are lots of things that are pretty much always inexcusable that can be the least bad choice against an Enemy like Melkor."

"Yeah, I'm just not confident of my ability to explain that to him."

"We've all been having a hard time forgiving ourselves because - it turns out we could have just set ten of my father to interdimensional transit, it only took him a decade - it turns out we were adjacent to Edda - not that we could have known but with things like that you don't get credit if there were unknowns like that which you failed to factor into the calculations..."

Nod.

"Most versions of me are happily married -

 - sorry, I actually intended not to bring any of this up, today..."

"I don't mind."

"Findekáno thinks that 'don't commit genocide even when you have a ridiculously compelling reason' is a good heuristic and that the fact it turns out there were other ways validates the heuristic. He has forgiven us, because not forgiving us would not make anything better, but I see Island and Pterodactyl or the Vanda Nossëo set or Luster's and all of them have been through horrors that I got to skip and all of them trust each other totally unconditionally and mine has decided it's more constructive to forgive me the genocide he thinks I should have known better than to commit. I'm sorry I can't send you thousands of new eager citizens. They'll be just as eager and helpful as visitors, promise."

"I'm sure they'll be great and we'll be delighted to have them.

I think it's a good thing Cam has alts because we're the only people he thinks he has the right to expect to be understood by instead of merely happening to."

"That seems like a very good thing, yeah."

"What's the best way to ask one of the Fëanáros here for advice on explaining?"