- briefly, so that if they ever do let you go you'll just kill everyone. 

And yet here we are. Presumably better than actively being tortured? And I don't think you've gone on a murder spree since... I guess you'd view it as the start of this one?

The premise of this game is that I got rescued via the intervention of the Valar before he was done with whatever he was doing. I have no impulse to kill lots of people. This is better than actively being tortured but still there hasn't been a moment since the purported rescue that was more pleasant than nonexistence.

My magic gives me a suicide trigger that should work even through a simulation but you have no reason to believe me when I say that and my simulation is definitely better than nonexistence.

I don't believe you and also can't die yet, on the off chance this is real.

Like I said. You have no reason to.

...Um. Can Melkor create minds?

No. 

Oh, that's really good to know. I can safely assume that you are not still in Angband and I am not a feature of your hallucination.

He could have captured you and erased relevant memories but that'd be a lot of trouble to go to and you said your life is tolerable moment-to-moment so I doubt it.

Yeah. I'd tell you to be worried about the reverse but with my current probabilities the chance that you are just a construct designed for my simulation is negligible conditioning on you having conscious experience. It wasn't always, when Lúthien and I were talking about this I told her that if she had conscious experience and a life's worth of memories she was about eight times more likely to be real than not. In some areas, Alfirin's capabilities seem to outstrip Melkor's.

No one but Eru can create life, that's why he had to breed orcs from Elves.

"No one but Eru can create life" does not seem to hold on my plane. We have lots of gods who claim to have done it, powerful wizards and alchemists sometimes manage without divine intervention. I suppose not all of those cases count, owlbears are probably more like orcs in that respect...

Well, we'd already established it would be terrible if the Enemy got your magic.

Yeah, I suppose we have. Do you have any suggestions for strategic things to do? Other than be computationally expensive and/or doing a better job of appreciating all the hard work you put into the crowds.

Teaching the magic sounds like the major one. The High King said you want to try people for things?

When the Enemy is dead, yes. It's not a priority now. Mainly people in command who ordered terrible things done. In theory, this would look different from "Try everyone who held a command" but from what I've heard it... might not.

If it solves some problems to execute me instead of mercy killing me I don't really care.

Yeah, I didn't think you would. I'll be sure you die unresurrectably even if you get a more lenient sentence.

Mmmhmm. 

I know, you don't believe me and you never will, because the only piece of convincing evidence will be erasing you from existence forever. Thank you for coming to speak with me. Unless you have other things to tell me, or want to suggest ways to find critics of Fingon's, I would like to take some time and think over things?

By all means. 

And he leaves.

Malak does, in fact, think over things. They still cannot think of any good ways to find people who have complaints about the High King. Announcing over osanwë that they are accepting anonymous complaints about the government seems unlikely to work. They could ask Celegorm for more details on fine-as-cousins-go Fingon. And perhaps solicit other opinions farther afield. Celegorm first, wonder if he's in range.

Hey, Celegorm, this is probably rude but I don't know how else to get a hold of you here. Would you mind chatting with me a bit about your cousin? Also, Huan and I never tested how my magic affects Maia, this seems like a pretty big oversight.

Yeah, you can come and test stuff out on the Mithrim side of the pass any time that works for you. And what about him?

Now works, I'll start heading that way. Specifically, I was hoping you could expand on "As cousins go he's fine". I'm deciding whether to give his people magic, leaning towards yes, but I'd like to hear from some critics of his first. You're the closest thing to a critic I can find.

You should definitely give them magic, we're gonna need all the help we can get.