[I'm not sure where else she'd have gone missing to though.]

[Maybe she heard Melkor was out and went to Earth?]

[No, I was by the portal up until it got sealed, would've seen her.]

[No idea then, sorry. You could ask Maira, she knows all the Elves who came with us.]

Dead end. Hm.

Drop, start over - [Liz?] and after the hi [How come you wouldn't talk to me before you left?]

[Sorry about that. If you hadn't been convinced you could've warned the Valar and they would have killed me and put Melkor and Maira back in solitary confinement forever, and you'd been brainwashed longer than us so Maira wasn't sure we could convince you fast enough.]

[Okay, but you wouldn't talk to me at all. I noticed something was going on because I was precogging something unrelated. I could talk to Taylor and Ahmad, but when I tried to talk to you I died.]

[...what?]

[In the real timeline I went to Earth instead but if I stayed in Valinor, and tried talking to you, I just died suddenly, you didn't even answer first -]

[...only if you tried talking to me?]

[Yeah, Taylor and Ahmad I could have conversations with. If I tried the other eclipsed I couldn't, they were all dead...]

[What -]

...she can always rerun this one and change tacks if she decides a particular line is a mistake. [And I warned the Valar about that but that just made it messier, they were just sort of dead by default but if the Valar were warned it was really gory -]

[...the Valar killed them. The Valar killed them - oh no -]

[Why would the Valar kill them differently depending on whether I told them about it?]

[I don't know - oh my god, they're all dead? Everybody?]

[The human eclipsed except me and you and Taylor and Ahmad, yeah, and it would've been me too if I'd actually talked to you instead of checking -]

[That part doesn't make any sense.]

[I was thinking that maybe your Vala-killer worked on humans and you freaked out - you don't think so?]

[I wouldn't kill you - and it doesn't, it senses Elves and Maiar, just them, and I wouldn't -]

[What else could it be?]

[Maira reads my mind, she could've - but she wouldn't either - probably you're lying -]

[I'm not - I wish you had lie detection this'd be simpler -]

[Takes a while and there are more urgent priorities, someone might try to come and kill us even though we're not hurting anyone -]

The fuck you're not - but this is a friendly branch - [Yeah, I know, but I'm seriously not lying, why would I make that up?]