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At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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For three months after Revelation he ignores his father's calls.

 

Yes. It should be possible to summon a demon and, depending how their powers work, either get a Silmaril from them or get the location of the patch of ground closest to the Silmaril from them or at worst do binary search over conjured models of parts of the planet to find the Silmarils. Yes, it should be possible to summon an angel to then dig the thing out of bedrock. And then they won't live life walking against the currents of fading, they will be whole again, they can summon some more for spaceship plans and head away from Earth much sooner, and much more powerful, than they imagined.

 

Also, the curious demon might go back to Hell and conjure some more Silmarils, if their powers happen to shake out that way, and might start handing out Silmarils to anyone on Earth who wants one, because why not, and the oath might still be in force, the risk is unimaginable - 

 

- they can of course get a Silmaril and then, if it turns out they can be conjured, not let the demon go home, that is merely incredibly rude and might strand someone a dimension away from their family for centuries. It at least does not risk unleashing the oath on this innocent world that has, at last, left the scars of the last time that happened beyond the reach of living memory.

 

For three months after Revelation he ignores his father's calls because he is childishly frightened, because his well-polished coping skills are fraying, because if he feels the tug of that oath on him again it will be too late to kill himself and therefore he wants, very badly, to do it now. For three months he wavers.

 

And then he answers the calls, and takes some vacation, and goes home for a Fëanorian planning session. He doesn't remember what loving them felt like but he remembers that he loved them, that it was once very important to him, and he knows he would do this for someone he loved. They plan and they read and they learn and they practice - without summoning, because daeva get the languages you speak when you summon them and so the first daeva they summon will know, if observant enough, they're not of this society - 

- he gets two weeks vacation a year, they plan very very slowly - 

 

- and six years after Revelation they have a binding and a few possible options for payment and a plan for the case where Silmarils turn out to be trivially conjurable and conjurable ones oath-relevant. Maedhros is terrified, and miserable, but no one can tell. He prides himself on that. 

 

Curufin doesn't want to do it because he speaks Khuzdul and the Dwarves who taught him it in confidence did not give him permission to share it. (They did give him permission, when it came up one optimistic night, to share it with his father should his father ever return to life, and so Fëanor speaks Khuzdul too.) Maglor's pretending to be a currently-dead pop star and that invites its own host of complications. 

Maedhros does not speak Khuzdul. He speaks the Black Speech in addition to a few human languages and Thindarin and Quenya, but the language won't scare daeva in itself (if they get his exact vocabulary, they might be frightened.) Maedhros picks a place in the castle in Canada that could be a room in an unusually wealthy human's house, unremarkable, and he painstakingly copies all but one bit of the circle they decided on together, and he calls in everyone to look and make sure he did it right, and he dismisses them all - one Elf alone is not obviously inhuman, two or more together raises suspicions -

- and he completes the circle.

 

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"Yesplease."

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Contract!

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She reads through it.

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She'll make three hundred thousand dollars a year and arrangements can be made so she can use magic for non-task-related things in a home once she rents or buys one and four times a day she can forward the government everything written since the last chip with a specific address label, and occasionally in emergencies they may ask for other things for a monetary bonus, and there are arbitration procedures and she has to pay taxes and is eligible for social securtiy and so on and so forth.

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"...isn't social security age based, I'm three hundred something. How much do lawyers cost? Will I not be able to make things out of the house, what if I get a baby and need to take the baby to the doctor and the baby needs something -"

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"Have your summoner come along? Or renegotiate once you're set to adopt the baby. Lawyers cost less than three hundred thousand dollars but possibly not much less if you encounter a lot of opposition for some reason."

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"How much do homes cost?"

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"In this area more than three hundred thousand dollars but other people will front you most of the money if you credibly promise you'll pay it back."

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Nod. "Is this one of those places where homeschooling is illegal -"

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"I don't know. You could live in Virginia, it's definitely legal there."

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Nod. Nod nod nod.

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"I can set up an orientation and training Monday, does that work for you?"

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"- what day of the week is it now?"

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"Wednesday. Five Earth days. Unless you get a lot of specific circles you can just get the one when I draw it."

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"Oh, I don't, this was the first one, I just wanted to know if I'd have time to tell everybody I'm going away."

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"Is five days enough?"

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"Yes!"

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"Then I will see you then." And he sends her home and does rather a mountain of paperwork.

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Elsewhere:

"- uh, Elves're in Hell news."

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"Oh? I guess if you telepath at enough demons that happens -"

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"No, somebody Matt summoned went to a linguist."

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"Does this create any problems -"

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"Not so far but they found Elves living on Earth, today, besides you."

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"- wow. Who -"

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"I'm pretty sure these are Earthly aliases, didn't publish original names if they found them."

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