"A million high-level wizards would be pretty bad news."

"And if she can treat a body as expendable she can be pretty efficient about risk-seeking."

"I vote no though I observe it'll be real hard to keep from her in the long term."

"Should I be wizards?"

"I think so."

"We need to be very sure the Presger can't get it out of you."

"It can't!"

"How do you know?"

"It tried and I was very mad at it but it didn't work."

"And you're sure it won't get better at trying?"

"I was very, very mad. I do not think it will try again."

- nod.

Rubelite accepts her copies of the books.

"Great. So you can all learn some magic, and we'll try the resurrections."

"...I'll take some books too, I might drop it when I can go back to my people but I'm not doing much right now."

The lot of them settle in to learn wizardry.

Belmarniss answers clarifying questions, mostly from Rubelite.

Some people scry for the long-lost Elves and Dwarves. Most of these scries fail. One of them does not.

"Either he learned to turn invisible or he's dead, but maybe Cam can give him a body? I don't know if that would work for the magic kind."

"Mandos does it. I guess maybe he's doing something far more complicated than it sounds like."

"Mandos can probably tell precisely where the soul is if nothing else."

"Right in the middle of the scry and it's not panning around so he isn't in the habit of drifting if they can do that."

"I'd have to be there to do it."

"How long would it take you? I can hold a temporary gate open for less than two minutes."

"Less than that but I don't know how long the Elf'd take to hermit crab his way into the body. Let alone walk here."