"I regret that I cannot be a more welcoming presence. Lots to coordinate at the moment - lots to think about - "

"It's fine, I'll leave you be - Boots'll be by soonish with stuff to install and some earwires."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

And she goes back to Mîr.

Where she dropped all of the people who've been being tortured for thousands of years and then collapsed into a puddle and is crying.

"Oh -" Snuggles for sad wife.

"I guess everything is Eru's fault but this is more directly so and we can't even say 'okay, we'll make sure he'll never hurt anyone again' -"

"We could evacuate all the Ardas but - yeah."

"He could just drop more species in them!"

"Yeah, he could." Snuggle.

"And there might not even be a finite number of Ardas."

"Yeah." Snuggle snuggle snuggle.

"I wish I'd been more strategic. Even once I got tired of being constrained I wasn't -"

"You were stuck in a badly written story and since you got out of it you've been amazing and you would've been pretty amazing anyway."

"But it wouldn't have changed anything. Illusory kind of amazingness."

Snuggle.

"If I could've taken Sauron then what I should have done is snuck out and gone to the Noldor as soon as they arrived -"

"I'm assuming there was composition time, and risk - Loki could in fact take Sauron but only once she had her ice, and then her teleport -"

"Yeah." Snuggles. 

Snuggles.

"I don't know how to feel about the fact these Fëanorians did actually murder tons and tons of people."

"I think - they'd already done most of the steering they could ever do on that when they took the oath, and that was very, very stupid and very, very dangerous and the ones who did that part are going to be appalled at themselves but - it's not new information except about how many people are willing to look at someone who's sworn an unbreakable oath to win at chicken and play chicken with them anyway -"

"People followed them."

"Yeah, those people are kind of suspect. But the Silmarils aren't just shiny rocks and the Fëanorians were the people who could've made them do more than be shiny rocks, which - might have seemed like enough reason at the time."

"I guess, if it was looking like Melkor was going to win and you knew you could stop him but you had to barrel through a city of innocent people - I don't even have to ask what you'd do -"