She's been checking whenever she's coming up on bedtime. Inconveniently this result makes her anxious enough to have trouble getting to sleep but she manages eventually.

Then she can find her. 

She looks fine, but, well, she would. This is a dream. She smiles at her. "Hi, can I help you? Do you know where we are? I'm Maitimë -"

"...I'm Isabella. We know each other, I think you must've - forgotten - some stuff -"

" - oh, okay. Is this the first time we've had this interaction -"

"Yeah."

"...is there a reason not to catch me up -"

"I don't know what you've forgotten. It might not be contiguous or I could just ask what the last thing you remember is. I can try to fix it but it might not work -"

"I - now that you mention it I don't think it's contiguous, I - I don't know anyone's name - I can remember the things I think I've been working on -"

"I can try to fix it, I can give people eidetic memories, but it might not work through what she did to you."

"What who did?"

"Melkor."

"Also doesn't sound familiar- are you okay -"

"It bothers me that she's been messing with your head."

"I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault. I can't try to fix it right now because we're asleep - this is a shared lucid dream - but I can when I wake up if you want me to."

"...yes, please, if you're representing things accurately -"

"Okay. What is the last thing you remember -"

"Trying to get ...someone's.... permission to set up a human kingdom -"

"That was a few years ago. Your grandmother, Finwë."

"Okay. What happened after that - why don't I remember you, did we meet more recently -"

"We knew each other by then, we were actually working on the kingdom together, I'm not sure why I'd have been edited out specifically because I don't know what Melkor's aiming at - I don't know why she took you in the first place -"

"Are there candidate things she could want with me -"

"I'm short on guesses. It can't just be to fuck with my head, she grabbed you before she could have found out I was still alive, she was planning to kill me."

"Something related to what I'm doing?"

"Maybe. It was mostly 'work on the human kingdom' though and I don't know why she'd have a particular interest in that - it couldn't have gone forward anyway after she was loose."