At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"General conservatism, I think. I have very little sense of how the Valar reach consensus and have vague hopes that talking to Aulë in particular would be better."

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"But it's risky what with demonstrated tendency to pull the magic-disabling trick?"

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"Yeah. I really really really hope they do the demon correspondence thing."

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"Have you checked if they're summoning?"

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"Not yet, although I'll probably look once a week or so. I'd be astonished if they were doing it yet. They are slow as fuck."

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"Except when overreacting, apparently."

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"That they can do real fast."

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"What when you get to the Dwarves? Teach them summoning?"

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"Naturally. Then we have faster than light communication and trade of small objects."

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"I really, really like the way you think."

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"Thanks."

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"Is it all set to go if only it were safe to navigate Valinor?"

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"Don't have a ship design. Elves are not necessarily the only people who would want to go on a trip that long, but they're the most obvious and I think they'd rather live there anyway; the wrinkle is Elves can't tolerate confined spaces, or ugly ones, so ship design is really important. It will have to be a big ship. Lacking artificial gravity, we'd need to check if acceleration suffices to summon - so that they can summon and dismiss en route - or if they'll need to do with a fairy to push and rockets to decel. Maybe someone has checked that and I just didn't hear about it. And if anyone else does want to come along for the ride they'd have to be screened and whatever their needs are would need accommodating."

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"Have no Elves ever been arrested for anything or is that different, too short to matter?"

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"Elves have a ridiculously low crime rate and handle the crime rate they have via non-prison methods, those methods admittedly including 'stupid bloody wars'. They can literally die of being locked up in a week. Or so I'm told, and I have no reason to believe the Elves of my acquaintance were trying to deter me from something that specific."

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"And when they're living secretly in human societies, like they were apparently doing until recently?"

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"They stay out of trouble. Possibly they abuse their telepathy and general superhumanity but I have no direct evidence of that."

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"I haven't asked them to check if I've got the private thoughts thing down yet, but I'm sufficiently confident they've cut it out with me to be in range."

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"Were they doing it to start out?"

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"Little bit, when they first summoned me, made sure I wasn't fucking with them."

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"Seems kind of like the gags. Maybe you prevent one avenue of being fucked with but also you now have a pissed-off daeva."

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"Didn't find out till they were too interesting to tell to fuck off, probably fortunately in the long run."

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"What are they like?"

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"Old. Singy. Excellent cheekbones. They don't have pointy ears any more, they got surgery. They still think about their stupid bloody wars a lot, since they spent most of the intervening time being dead and Elves do everything including recover very slowly."

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