"Well I don't know how to teach anyone to invent things, so that's fair."

"Yeah. Seems like a rotten deal that you think you have to make up for having been born though."

"At least I'm smart enough I can maybe sort of do it. I don't know what I'd do if I wasn't."

"Be miserable all the time, sounds like? Does having alts make it less plausible that you'll do something that irreplaceable or do you count for each other or what?"

"We don't really count for each other - like, all of the bad things any of them did is my fault but it's not like I count as having invented the Silmarils - but I might still get to do something irreplaceable if I try hard enough."

"...why do you only count for each other in the one direction, how does that make sense?"

"Because for bad things all that matters is that I'm capable of it, not whether I actually did it. Well, whether I did it matters a lot to people who got hurt or didn't but it doesn't matter for whether I'm a good person. Demons who'd be awful except they keep only getting summoned under responsible bindings aren't less awful by luck, are they?

But for impressiveness, 'I would have been impressive under better circumstances' doesn't count."

"Why? I find it nice to know that if I'd had T'Mir's resources I could've been bragging about her very large number. She's totally winning."

"It'd be nice if there was a me who'd saved a lot of people. But it wouldn't mean I count."

"...why though?"

"Because I didn't do it, he did. I might not even know how to do it."

"...hm."

"Anyway. We were helping demons adopt kids."

"Yup. I doubt anybody's watching us here and they won't notice if we vanish simultaneously."

Pop!

Pop indeed! Hello Space.

It's amazing. He wishes all the Ardas were like this.

And who's taking point on the demonic adoptions program?

"Hey! Demons all scouted?"

"Stopped at thirty, we can go introduce Epic to more of 'em if that seems like a good idea though."

"Thirty seems like enough to start with. Endorë doesn't actually have any orphaned babies, what with that nifty afterlife we've got working, so I stole'em off some place not at the top of Edda's priority list but from where they will in fact have belly buttons. Do you want to help with the pitch and screening, or should I take it from here?"

"By stole you of course mean they were orphaned or something?"

"No, I walked into the nearest hospital ward with a phaser and said 'hand over your children or you die!' of course they were orphaned."

"Just checking. I don't actually know off the top of my head how I'd find a couple dozen babies nobody wanted anywhere other than Stork on short notice. Anyway, I'm willing to stick around to tell all these demons 'actually Fëanáro's parents are alive and realized they needed to summon him but would you like to be involved in this pilot program!' if you think it'll help."

"It will probably save some time!"