"Okay, so, my world," she calls up the map again, indicates it, "is not an Arda. I named it Wish. It's got a planetful of just humans, and it's got some aliens elsewhere in the world. Within Wish humans are unique in experiencing emotions. At all. And emotions can be a fuel source for the local magic system. When I was seventeen I was offered a wish by a fluffy li'l alien; the wish came with magic powers and a charge to defeat evil despair monsters therewith. That's legit as far as it goes; what they don't tell you in the promotional material -" And she proceeds to explain the magic system and how Joy dropped on her and helped her break the emotion ecology and trade for the wish thing.

"Congratulations."

"Thanks! How much detail is the council gonna want...?"

"Uh, do you have any way of verifying any of this -"

"Uh, my alt Golden's daughter Elspeth who is going to reasonableize your Valar has truth-telling magic and is very hard to doubt even when she's just talking and doesn't maintain private thoughts? You can come look around at some of the stuff? I should call Cam over here anyway to make him install a comm ball so messages can go in and out of this world?"

"I suppose if no one ever dies again that'll be sufficient proof of most of it. We'll probably stay watching out for Sauron just in case."

"Don't really blame you. If you would find it satisfying Loki does a very good retelling of her own Arda adventure which is by far the most storyish of them all and includes her killing a Sauron with her bare hands."

"It's not really a good adventure story that I'm looking for."

"Yeah I don't really know what you're looking for I haven't met any of you before and it gets way too easy to rely on that after a while."

"Everything you have said is very hard to believe and if I need to convince additional people of it, it would be useful to have evidence beyond 'they definitely did complex foreign magic with nonlocal effects, which they say killed Morgoth and Sauron" - maybe Mithrandir'll have some way to check if Morgoth's dead -"

"The orcs would know, right? Are there any left alive?"

"If you can find one old enough to be sworn to Morgoth, which none of the ones born in the last six thousand years would be."

"Huh, I was sort of expecting they'd keep inducting their kids into the same oath."

"That wouldn't be very useful to Sauron. There are also lots of orcs sworn to no one, just wandering, preying on travelers."

"Well that'll make them annoying to collect and relocate."

"Can't wish it?"

"Could, but that adds the step of finding someone who feels very strongly that they want all the orcs collected into one place, which seems like it might be kinda niche. Especially since if they want to hurt the orcs we have a problem."

"Yeah, you might have a problem there."

"I can bring in an orc from an orc planet to wish for it, I guess."

"Are you all right?"

Blink. "...I'm fine?"

"You seem - anxious - and I can't determine to what degree it's 'this is a complicated problem' and to what degree it's 'all the people I know did horrible things and died horribly' and to what degree there are complications I am not aware of."

"This turned out to be a moderately more delicate 'find a world, fix it up all nice' expedition than I was expecting when we set out. I am not actually super attached to anybody customarily found in Ardas except Joy, and the local Lúthien sounds like she did okay for herself. Some of my alts are going to be desperately upset, though." Pause. "The one with a human version of Maedhros may take it into her head to ask you about his parenting skills? I can tell her to back off if you want."

"I doubt I'd have any insight for her unless hers plans on going through five hundred years of continuous trauma, burying pretty much everyone he cares about, and then adopting a couple of traumatized five-year-olds. I do not mind if she asks, if that's helpful to her."

"I can tell her the information would not be useful."