At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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If it's all right with the King we could summon lots of daeva so you all know the languages.

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I can get you a list of daeva who'd like that!

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What sort of things do humans know how to do? I don't know who will have more math and science questions.

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We just started a colony expedition to the nearest star; it's daeva-supplemented but would not have been actually impossible without. We have computers and consumer models lately can hold four gigabytes of stuff if conventionally manufactured; demon-produced models are better. I'm not sure what the state of the art in math is.

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Oooooh. The Dwarves sent us a hello but people didn't think contact would be a good idea. They don't think it is now, either, but it seems like we don't have much choice about it.

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I'd love a way for humans and Dwarves to communicate without having to go through Valinor but that seems not to be physically possible right now.

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Zota said. That might be possible.

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That will definitely help distract people who just really want to meet magical aliens!

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I hope so! They haven't met the ones on Earth?

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They're mostly hiding. And it's not quite the same as an entire civilization.

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They can come back if they want, right? Hiding sounds terrible.

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They seem to prefer it to going to Valinor.

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They might not be very well informed about Valinor, they've been gone a very long time.

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I will be happy to conjure them any documents they ask for, and people from Valinor can write them letters, too.

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Oh good. Thank you.

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You're welcome! Is there anything else I can do for you or the other Valian Elves?

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I don't think so. I wish this weren't necessary but we'll make sure to do it right.

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You wish what weren't necessary?

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All this contact with other worlds. There are people in Valinor for whom it's really important to not have - plot - happen, and we kept it that way for a long time, and it would have been better if we could have kept it that way forever. This is a bad thing for our society which we're doing because we were told otherwise even worse things would happen, and that's not a very good situation to be in even if it's not anybody's fault.

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I encourage you to let everyone who would rather avoid plot do so.

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We are, as far as we possibly can. But that's not anywhere near as far as 'everything is an ocean away and we are categorically not getting involved', does that make sense? It's a lot closer now even if someone decides to personally avoid human letters. There are people who will quit the mathematics forums they've been in for ten thousand years and go live farther away in the mountains, and they'll be okay, but it would have been nicer if you'd just left us alone.

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I'm genuinely sorry that their comfort is a casualty of all this.

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She sets the paper back down on the ground for Zota. "Do you need anything else?"

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"Me? I don't think so..."

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"Okay! I'm going to go back to the palace. If you want me you can think at me -" like this - "and then I can come find you."

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