"I heard about that one."

"And that's not the Valar's fault, and I didn't really expect better of Eru per se."

"I think I always prefer less intervention from Eru."

"Assuming her observed priorities are fixed yep."

"Someone's gonna figure out resurrection. All psion effects are reversible - right -"

"In principle."

"So they're not really gone, not forever -"

"I hope, yeah."

"You hope?"

"Might require implausible metabolic efficiency or something. Then again seems like Ents actually have that relative to humans and there's one of each."

"So someday someone will bring Maira and Melkor back -"

"For about two seconds maybe."

"You'd have to know they were alive, they could easily have gotten a portal to somewhere you couldn't follow and -"

"Maybe I need to pick up divination powers."

"I am sure you'll pick them up quickly and they'll reveal that everything will be fine forever."

"That's, uh, not quite how they work."

"No?"

"Nah. I could get it to dovetail with my precognition but it won't circumvent my range limit. I'd just be able to directly answer questions within whatever scope I got, like 'is so-and-so alive.'"

"Useful. Though it competes with whatever you're planning to pick up for playing with my head."

"Don't even know if I should try that." She brought dessert. She starts in on the dessert.

"What is 'should' doing there - don't know if it would work, don't know if the gods will judge you to have acted wrongly -"

"Don't know if it actually gets me what I want or if it could just dress up as it really convincingly."

"What do you actually want -"

"I want you to be all right without anything horrible happening to you to get you that way."

"Which part do you want more?"