"So it's like with me and boats - you won't destroy Valinor and kill my family and all the Maiar and everybody, because you have better choices -"

"Yeah."

"I'm glad they were next to Edda, can you imagine if they were just all dead forever -"

"Cam would've kept looking for a way - Hex might have been able to pull something together eventually, he found them before he found Edda - but it would've been awful. It was awful enough for the people he could bring back."

"I can imagine how awful it'd be." Cling.

Snuggle.

"The people who loved Cam still do, right?"

"I'm not actually sure how his relationship with his parents held up but he does visit them..."

"Okay."

"And he has alts and we get it, especially Loki, and Bells're pretty good at coping in general."

"And all the people who died and lost their whole world?"

"He doesn't go visit them. He doesn't think they'd appreciate it. They might not appreciate his alts dropping by either. So I don't know much about how they're doing. I hope they're okay. He tried to put their planet back as best he could."

"This is not very good and I can't think how to fix it by being smarter."

"Loki brought back all the dead Maiar and Valar, and I think they're probably patching up what Cam couldn't do with the replacement planet. I can't think of a way to make it better from there either."

Squeeze.

Squeeze.

"I'm so glad we got you. So glad. And that things weren't bad enough you had to - to destroy Valinor - I didn't even think I cared about Valinor anymore but I'm sad so I guess I did -"

"I'm glad I got there early enough and had good choices," she murmurs.

"Mmhmm."

Pensive cuddles for the luckily counterfactual mass murderers?

Yeah.

Fëanáro'll probably bounce off eventually. She'll snuggle him till he does that.

It's a long time, but yeah. Off he goes.

And Boots notebooks a bit,

and then sends Midnight a polite note that she's a new Bell and is interested in visiting his world when it's convenient.

And gets a response that she's quite welcome, he'd love to hear all about the additional worlds that have been found and once she's given him the news he'd be happy to put her in touch with whoever she pleases.