At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"That'd be all right. Fairyland sounds nice too, just - it isn't a spectacular utopia in which nothing could conceivably be scarce. Well, not yet."

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"Not yet!"

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"Elves have magic, right?"

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"Yes. Magic songs and magic artifacts."

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"And Dwarves?"

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"Artifacts. Slower than how Elves do it but they've had a while."

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"Two magic systems and all the time in the world."

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"Yes!"

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" - can the Valar listen in on people or anything -"

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"They are as telepathic as Elves are, but obey the same private thoughts thing I outlined. And are unlikely to mindread outside Valinor since that would require caring about things outside Valinor."

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"What would it take to not have to worry about them anymore -"

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"...they're probably trustworthy if they agree to something. They won't bother us if we don't bother them. Neither is as good a deal as it sounds because I think they are unlikely to understand things like 'China and America are different entities', let alone 'individuals acting alone', but they're something."

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"And the unpowering, is it likely that could be replicated with magic eventually -"

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"Uh, possibly but it'd certainly take a long time, getting magic to do new stuff is slow."

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"Do you have specific applications in mind, or...?"

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"I am trying to anticipate - eventual stability of the happy paradises of indestructible people."

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"...if nothing else there is currently no reason to expect the Valar can travel to daeva realms or Limbo."

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"That is reassuring."

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Nod.

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"Though a way to get to Limbo would be nice if it didn't destabilize everything else."

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"This I do not contest."

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She's chewing her lip thoughtfully. "Was Hell as lovely as described?"

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"It's not perfect. And it's really tacky, everybody makes stuff without thinking about it too hard and doesn't have a good way to get rid of it, I bet Heaven's tidier. But everything that one demon told me was true."

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" - what'd make it perfect -"

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