"Only one I saw. I can look for more."

"I can do that while you try to recruit people to scry, if you're all right with that."

"Sure. I can go ask if anyone wants to try."

"Thank you."

And he can go see if there are more crystal balls around.

There are some! They've rolled to some kind of weird places and are now sort of carelessly scattered around.

Oh good. Then her shipmates can try their scries with fresh crystal balls and he can do one on his mother (in Axis, scrubbing a window at this moment) to confirm that it's not just that scrying on paused worlds doesn't work.

She gets some people together. None of them can successfully scry any of their dead relatives.

"Okay. Well, thank you for trying."

"Yeah. I guess that means they're not in an afterlife? At least not the kind you can see."

"Yeah. I think so."

"Well. Too bad, I guess."

"I think I would find it very - scary and lonely. I hope there's just something we can't see."

"I don't know if it's lonely. Always lots of living people to make friends with. 

"The Targians have a story about how death was the final gift that the gods gave to Liars, so they couldn't be made to work forever and would eventually be released. It's not my favorite story about death, or anything, I guess I like the ones about the world of the dead better, but - I guess I hope that if they're anywhere they're at least getting to rest now."

Nod.

"Well. Not very sure what to be working on now, then."

"I don't really know." He looks slightly sad.

"I'll go ask Fëanáro. I guess."

She heads off to go find him. If she can actually remember which one is the one she knows.

Probably the one who waves at her.

She can talk to that one, then. 

"We tried scrying on the dead. None of us could see anyone. Fazil doesn't know if that means they're somewhere we can't see or if they've stopped existing."

"We think Dwarves stop existing when they die. Eru hasn't said for sure. We've had a couple dozen die, since the start of the world, and maybe someday he'll let us get them back."

"Huh.

"It's weird, thinking of a place only having a couple dozen dead since their world began."

"There are more of you than Dwarves but the Valar can do the same thing for you, and then they'll only die in very bad accidents."

"That'll be good. Assuming we can make their lives any good, I guess."

"I'm sure we can."

"Alright. That'll be good, then."