"Yeah it's the magic love one I'm sorry."

"Mmmhmm."

"If any of this were real I wouldn't hate you," she says, "and it wouldn't be you hurting me," and she turns and leaves.

That is not going to stop Annie from crying for a while but it will make it a shorter while.

...hey, you okay?

Did Rirosseth tell you -

Someone put the Silmaril in the sky somehow and I asked people to take stuff about that to me and she must have pieced it together - 

Yeah. She asked if I asked you to lie to her and I said no and she'd mostly figured it out anyway - I told her.

Okay. Well. Luckily I can't think of a single way to even attempt fetching a Silmaril from the sky so she doesn't have to do anything about it right now -

Okay.

You okay?

I'll live.

Mmhmm. Anything I can do?

Can't really think of anything.

Okay.

She goes to her room and doesn't bar the door because it's not as if it fucking means anything and stares blankly at the wall and wishes she'd never existed.

Annie doesn't attempt to explain rockets to anyone.

Probably a good idea.

Although - they kept trying to get messages to Valinor with boats -

Airplanes she explains!

Dwarves are intrigued at airplanes but a long way off from being able to get anywhere on them. 

Yeah, she doesn't expect them to be flying around anytime very soon.

She doesn't leave her room for two months.

Annie has to fucking strangle her brain into behaving itself but she can do it because Rirosseth should not have to make the slightest sacrifice to fret about Annie's well-being and the best the only way to arrange that Rirosseth is free of this obligation is to fucking. cope. She doesn't know if Rirosseth even notices when Annie asks Lírnith how she's doing but she does it less anyway because she has to fucking cope so that Rirosseth will not worry about her, will not spend down scarce mental resources trying to manage her, she will manage herself and the artifact is going to help goddammit because it's what Rirosseth needs her to do, okay -

She does, in fact, mention that Annie's asked about her less often and seems to be doing fine. We're not going to make you do anything, okay? And if you did do it you'd know this was real, Enemy can't break oaths and it feels like something, being free of it-