" - yes. Why am I here?"

"I really wish we knew." 

And he explains.

Someone comes to notify Bright and Mirelóte that another Elf Maitimo is here.

Hello! How much has already been explained to you, do you want me to find Cam for you -?

I got a very abbreviated explanation from the pharaoh, he seemed annoyed - it sounds like Cam's in the middle of some important stuff?

Yes, he isn't sure if the people who were helping him were likely to send a lightleaper straight to his summoner so he wants to pack as much infrastructure project into five days as he can, he'll probably slow down if he doesn't get dismissed as soon as that. I'm over here with the local version of your father - Sense-of-place, directions through the palace.

He'll head on over. 

Is everyone all right?

...not really, it's a mixed bag.

That's sort of how the pharaoh made it sound. Are your Valar going to be annoyed with Cam and I, if we contact them.

I suppose not even being annoyed would be a lot to ask but I believe they'll handle it responsibly.

Thank you. It's not actually important but I appreciate having a model.

My Maitimo is also awake if you'd like to double up on conversations, get up to speed quicker - we think you're the last person we expect, for whatever value of 'expect' is reasonable under the circumstances.

Thank you, yeah, we're talking. He thinks really really highly of you.

It's mutual. It's hardly the most regrettable thing in the scenario - taking 'the scenario' to mean really either of 'your Arda's context' or 'the apparently broad range of potential relationship paradigms between the two of us' - but I do regret that you and Cam weren't able to get very well acquainted given all there was demanding both of your attention.

I would have really liked to have met him at literally any other time in my life. But I expect at some point in the next couple thousand years things'll calm down and we can get to know each other.

I can't guarantee he'll want to circle back to things he was doing and people he used to work with a thousand years previously by then - he's not even two hundred in short years yet - but it'll probably be possible.

I suppose I'll have to be up to interesting things.

That's the way. How are you holding up?

I am mostly very encouraged. The spread of stuff we've got suggests - more ways to solve problems than I thought there were an hour ago. And even if this is all the instances of us welcome for this particular experiment it's probably not all the universes. 

Of course most of them seem unspeakably horrible but then, so was ours until we got extradimensional help.

Yes, I'm not really as happy as one might expect about having the nicest universe.

You are the only difference your Maitimo and I have been able to identify.

Oh, yes, it was almost certainly me, but don't make too big a deal out of it, I like it when people come to the conclusion on their own and then I get additional credit for something that is sort of like humility if you squint.

Well, here I am responsibly having come to the conclusion on my own. Do you think the arguments you used to convince your Valar will be persuasive to ours -

They might not be in the most receptive mood when next they can hear arguments.

They really might not.