What's the Findekáno going to need...?

I have absolutely no idea. I can't imagine - if I had to kill him in Angband I could have done it and come home but there was still the hope - I know he was in a lot of pain but what a selfish -

No, the selfish bit was earlier. A murder spree looking more and more like a suicide-by-literally-anyone-who'd-do-it - if no one loved him then no one'd miss him and he had permission -

Deeeeeep breaths.

Sorry.

Boots says he said he was happy.

Yeah.

...he can't even formulate a coherent question, here.

Happy because he could die. Happy because he didn't have to keep trying. Happy because he couldn't hurt anyone else-

If two months ago something much more powerful than us had found our dimensions, announced it shared our values except really wanting Maitimos erased, and was going to kill us all and go on its way, I'd have been happy. Because it'd be over and it wouldn't have to be my fault and I wouldn't have - really wouldn't have, I do know - been hurting you two as badly as it was hurting me to keep on going. 

I should've tried Boots sooner.

I could have asked her myself.

Yeah, and I could tell that you were not doing that.

We've got to find Ardas before the second sack of Menegroth but it's not - it's not like we were just too slow to get around to this one - even if we have Joy go pop around finding all of them tomorrow -

Yeah. I guess a few months could have made a difference with Loki's or Cam's, but...

Apparently Epic thinks he should've gotten an interdimensional teleport a decade sooner, found Revelation from Warp, and saved Space with magic. Which. Can't be the healthiest mindset for a child who's only thirteen because he left Valinor and started growing up faster.

It may be worth sweeping for Ardas just because they're usually pretty efficiently handled. Well, for a value of efficiently that includes an army of half a million automata and sacrificing a continent.

Wonder what happens if we Elspeth right away, maybe at least get the Valar to stop the continent from crumbling.

Oh, can they do that?

No idea. It seems like it should be in the skillset, but we've never had reasonable Valar while it was still important.

Right, next new Arda drop Elspeth in it first thing.

And maybe go out looking for them but just put the mes in a coma for a while, if we're not in a place to deal with -

Do we even have a way to do that with Elves, Boots's thing doesn't last that long.

Oh, in that case no. Before Boots we definitely didn't.

Sigh. So go out and do a run of Ardas and mass me-executions, that works too.