"That probably works well enough when he's. Healthy."

"Yeah. In Warp we didn't have one till recently - me and the Warp native Bell found each other before the rest found us - and we were making do but it involved a lot of help from Warp-specific aliens who I wouldn't expect to have any applicable comfort zone here at all."

"What are you imagining the role of a point person from your - consortium - being, exactly?"

"They'd hang out here and learn about and summarize local facts - like, your summary to Gem was good but it left out the Nazgûl, might be missing other stuff, it would come up if someone hung around long enough - and they'd know what multiverse resources to call in for whatever, like if you need a city built in two hours you call Cam or whatever."

"Could he rebuild Númenor somewhere?"

"Underlying terrain would have to match. He only adds, can't subtract. But yeah he could do that."

"And Beleriand too? I should at least inform people that's an option."

"Making an entire continent probably does unwelcome things to the sea level, that would likely be better handled by wish as long as you're one step from Wish."

"Another consideration we're wrestling with is what to do about the Fëanorian loyalists."

"First instinct is invite them to Vanda Nossëo, but correspond with Vanda Nossëo about that first probably."

"Probably a good solution. I should get Celebrimbor back and go from there on how closely we'll collaborate with them."

"I think his Elentári alt is on Vanda Nossëo too, not sure where the others wound up."

"He must be really young, the timeframe's you're mentioning."

"By Elf standards sure. Telperion certainly doesn't even have one and Shine may not either."

"Anyway, mine will be able to evaluate the work happening in Vanda Nossëo and decide whether we want to help them make rings of power."

"Great. Okay, is anyone going to want a tutorial on how to use a regular crystal ball or a non-chiplocked computer, or would you rather wait until Cam comes by to give chiplocked computers out?"

"...if we're doing anything with rings of power I think we want the chiplocked ones."

"Okay, he'll just teach you to use those when he's here, then, which should be within a day or so, not sure if he'll beat Elspeth here or not. If you have some kind of emergency communiqué you can use the comm ball directly, too, you just stare at it and the only thing you need to get a 'help, now' message to Gem is you stare at the red circle in the upper right from there."

"All right. Thank you."

"You're welcome. Any other questions or anything before I go?"

"Your Arda was the one from the time of the Trees?"

"Yeah."

"What are they like?"

She sends him an image of the Trees as seen through borrowed Elf eyes at Mingling.

"Thank you.

You may get tourists."