"Sorry, should I not bring that up?"

"It's fine, I just don't have anything to add."

"In a bizarre way I find it sort of reassuring to learn that there is such a thing as a compelling reason to obliterate an inhabited planet."

"Reassuring?"

"My home planet was destroyed too. I wasn't on it, but my father was. The official story makes it sound like an act of random disproportionate terrorism."

"My condolences. ...and you're wondering whether that's true?"

"It's hard to substantiate. I haven't devoted a lot of resources to solving the mystery."

"Cam could - or, um, if that'd be upsetting on some level, any other demon could - pretty trivially get the information you'd be interested in..."

"Only if it was committed to unencrypted recorded format, which is unlikely. Subspace transmissions in particular don't count."

"I don't know about subspace transmissions, but even if it was encrypted, if people weren't expecting to protect against demons they've usually failed to."

"I could ask Cam to try things, but it seems unlikely to be fruitful and unlikelier to be constructive."

"Fair enough. I'm very sorry. I'm sure you've been told Loki's working on resurrection -"

"Of course."

"The good news is that civilizations are very resilient to their planet being annihilated and a new one made for them. They will all eventually be alive and some time after that they will be okay."

"It's good to know that."

He nods. "Cam's been, uh, skirting me, should I be attempting to somehow put him at ease."

"Cam is attempting to avoid any attempt to make claims on you, your time, your attempts to put anyone at ease, etcetera. You can talk to him if you like but he is not expecting or hoping for it."

He sighs. "That is very good and principled of him and doesn't sound like the healthiest possible thing but I suppose he already has people more qualified to look out for him."

"Loki's taking point on that."

"And who's taking point on comparing all of Warp's tech with ours and giving everybody the best of both worlds? - what's your cover story with the Federation on all the miracles you can suddenly perform, or are you going to tell them about magic..."

"Leaf has moved here and might be considered point person on technological comparison. We're declining to have a cover story or explain anything - osanwë they know about but it's easily classified as unusually long-range psi, which occurs in many species such as one of mine here. They believe we have faster than light transporter technology, transporters being a sort of technological teleportation solution most commonly used for orbit-to-planet and vice versa transit; this might even be technically feasible, we just don't in fact have that. We think they don't yet have enough intel on us to have noticed much of the other magic."

"And how is the lovely improved federation coming along -"

And she is happy to tell him about the newest member worlds and logistical triumphs.

And he is delighted and fascinated and asks if he can write a contemporary history for the interest of space Arda's populace, who dreamed of finding aliens and were terribly disappointed to live in an empty galaxy.

He is more than welcome to do that!