Oh, good. He's so happy. 

(Boots is notified that Millenia's Celebrimbor and Fingon are caught up to speed in Vanda Nossëo, and Celebrimbor's sort of sour on the idea of rings of power at the moment but he's happily helping them reconstruct the rest of what he accomplished in the millenia after the war, and Vanda Nossëo's set to accommodate a lot of Fëanorian-aligned murderers and bring them in on the planet-saving processes and things are mostly waiting on her having a few days clear for the Maedhros if he can be persuaded not to die, and also could she un-straighten someone, he doesn't want it right now but it'd be useful to know if it's possible.)

She can clear a few days. She has absolutely zero training in altering sexual orientations. If it was done clumsily like Mandos memory fuzz, she may be able to straightforwardly sweep out the editing; if it went deeper than that she'll have to refer him to someone with a sketchy career history who has experience in the technique.

Well, it's possible in principle, that's something.  

Yes, it has been done. Usually in the other direction but there's no fundamental differences.

Materia's a lovely place. Anyway. They're going to do the rest of the Fëanorians first, they're kind of expecting them to cope better.

She will make schedule adjustments and be on hand when they need her.

He is giving the question of how to pull this off a lot of thought. He sends his crystal ball a lot of questions. Do they still want to test Elspeth on him?

She could be on hand to explain to the not-Maedhroses and get their opinion? If she helps she might help a lot. Not just the magic believability but the magic high-bandwidth; it would be genuinely difficult to simulate an Elspeth if you did not actually have one and if you actually had one she could not pretend to be a nonsimulation.

There is that. She can come by and tell him all about how this is real, how about that, and then they can also have her on hand to explain to the rest of the family.

So she goes and visits Zenith.

"Hi."

"Hi."

Let's see, Elf-sending-tolerances are - yea much - anyway here is her understanding of the history of Ardas-as-they-go and the multiverse and all kinds of things in it and the quality of her evidence for it and stuff!

" -pleasestop," he says after a second. 

"Sorry. I - it's useful, but I can feel it wanting to be believed and it's - very insistent, doesn't feel like I'm properly getting a chance to evaluate - just give me a second - can you send something not true, as a reference point for the speed without the trueness thing-"

She stops. "I can't actually send things that aren't true or at least not-false like 'hi' or marked as fiction or something, the magic won't let me. I can say things that aren't true. The moon is made of green cheese."

"You have very disconcerting magic. Okay. I - agree with the assessment the Enemy'd have a hard time replicating you. And if he could replicate Boots things would be even worse than they were. But - yeah, we should continue not trying to use truth magic to convince people they're out of Angband, probably - sorry -"

"- because I'm disconcerting?"

"Because the facts-insisting-that-they're-true thing is - there were kinds of tampering the Enemy did which you could feel happening, you're different but I can feel that I'm believing things because you said them regardless of whether I actually think that's sufficient evidence, and not 'to the degree Elspeth is as she presents herself this is true', just 'this is true', and there is so much that could be done with the ability to put facts in my head like that -"

Elspeth nods. Should she just leave - or she can do the thought hiding thing but she kind of hates the thought hiding thing even though it did lead to a remarkably aggrieved Midnight when she'd pulled it off that one time - anyway if not thinking-truly at Zenith is preferable she'd probably just as soon correspond any desired further correspondences in writing? But she doesn't have to go that fast...

It's fine. When you're thinking things other than 'here is strategically relevant information whose truth value is really important to you' it's not really a problem at all, even...

Okay. Well, the truth values of everything are sort of important to her but they do vary in urgency. She's sorry she freaked him out.

It's why we did the experiment, right? Don't worry about it. I'm fine. 

Well if she goes and thinks that at anybody it will be labeled as rather suspect, considering.

Sometimes I wake up and for a couple seconds I'm just - okay. Not afraid and not hurting and not filtering, and then I put it all back in place just in case but I have those seconds. And I really am okay.

Well, that's more convincing, anyway. (Elspeth is glad to be past the point in her life where she had to try to mislead people. It was hard and it sucked and she was bad at it.)