"Then yeah, you'd have some old humans around going 'but whatever happened to the Elves'?"

"Which we do not."

"Someone didn't think their premise all the way through," she murmurs.

Annie leans on her.

Snuggle.

"Cam, can you make us a nice place in the middle of the desert that can accommodate all these interdimensional gates, and visitors from various places, and transit between gates and so on?"

"Do you have blueprints or should I do my own plagiarism and engineering?"

"I barely even know what kind of requirements this place might have, you will have to invent it all yourself. The Amentans should find its plumbing satisfactory and the Earth people - whatever Earth people look for in their interdimensional hubs."

"I'll play the role of an Earth people and commandeer Pelape. Some things will vary depending on whether you expect to have daeva summoning here but if you don't want to check and plan that yet I can design conservatively."

"It's on the list of things to think about but the list of things to think about keeps growing. Thank you. I'm very excited."

"You're welcome. - Maitimo - I mean you -" he points at his own, "you check for a local Ingwë yet?"

"Local Indis had several older brothers. All of them are dead, so I'm trying to get in touch with them."

"I'll hack something together fast."

"What're we looking for alts of Ingwe for -"

"Need to write him a letter explaining the multiverse nonsense, I think it'll go over better if one of him has input. Do you have one?"

"I tentatively expect that we did, but he's dead."

"So's the local but that's not prohibitive. The idea is that New Valinor has dibs on me and we're asking politely if I can stick around a bit longer to do infrastructure projects before I go back and finish reembodiments. I don't know whether to bet on him refusing me just because he hates my guts or being confused I even asked because a year here or there doesn't matter to them."

"I am also unsure of that but I think being reminded he doesn't really care is likelier if we frame it right."

"No one can raise our dead, though, right?"

"I would want to at least try a Wish for the body and then a True Resurrection. Or a Cam for the body and then a True Resurrection, whichever."

"Should I provide a body now?"

"What, right on the floor?"

"...I could put down a tarp? Is this related to your plumbing issues?"

"Yep. Put down a tarp. And make sure someone's ready to take it away if it doesn't work."

"I did not actually prepare True Resurrection today."