Boots looks exhausted. He wavers over whether to comment on this and decides not to and hugs her tighter.

Well, eventually she falls asleep on him.

So he will carry her to her room and take off the boots and tuck her into bed and leave a glass of water on the nightstand and then go for a walk outside which ends up being a walk in fairly tight circles around the house because he is worried.

She sleeps for eleven hours. She was really tired.

He should probably have said something about that! They could even have hugged while she was falling asleep in her bed instead of on her feet, if she didn't say anything about it because she didn't want to stop getting hugs.

When she wakes up he is sitting at a crystal ball and he smiles at her weakly and says 'Fëanáro made breakfast. There are thirty different choices but none of them are the right temperature, I think he was experimenting with what happens if he's trying to keep attributes of things he's conjuring specifically in mind and is wrong about the attributes in question."

"...I see. Are any of them too warm such that if I leave them around a little longer they'll be just right?"

"Uh, possibly those croissants over there, and that oatmeal! I would also be happy to make you breakfast the non-magical way."

"Croissants actually sound great." She levitates a croissant over and blows on it and pokes it tentatively.

It will cool down shortly to breakfast-temperature.

Nom. "What time is it -? I should probably have insisted on breaking all that up."

"You slept about eleven hours. What happened?"

"The new Maedhros is dead now."

"I'm sorry.

...the procedure for all of them can't be that involving of you, that's not fair to you."

"It depends on how many we find that - late. And he didn't know me from a random stranger, didn't get into the context - it could've been somebody else after all."

Hugs. "I imagine it's comforting to a lot of people to know that we tried everything we possibly could."

Snuggle. "Yeah."

"Are your alts who are close to theirs going to be doing okay? Is that something I should check on?"

"Loki'll probably fling herself particularly hard at her resurrection spell for a while in case we ever think of something else we could try. I'm not sure what Kib'll do. Iobel can probably - figure hers is different enough or something to be mostly insulated."

"Okay." Sigh. 

"Things are better when we show up earlier but I - wish there weren't a 'too late' cutoff, like that."

"Yeah. Is there any chance if we do things differently with another late one -"

"I don't think doing things in a different order would have helped and nobody had a last-second idea for more things..."

"Maybe we should be checking more aggressively for Ardas, the difference we make in Ardas is going to be bigger than anywhere else - have Joy go to every world we've found and check from there for new ones - but you shouldn't have to handle it personally -"

"If this comes up again I'll refer to someone else," she says, shaking her head. "At least for some of it."

Squeeze. "Is his family okay -"