He lets Jisa know they're having a meeting too.

Jisa gets there and sits down close to Dara, looking quietly resigned.

Vanyel drags a hand over his face, rolls his shoulders in a vain attempt to loosen them. “All right. Findekano, could you catch them up with the really quick summary version?”

"Sure. It looks like everyone has been working with a lot of operational deficiencies lately because of Vanyel's injuries, Maitimo's capture, Leareth's death and, uh, the fact that civilian leadership of the Noldor under my father has had a fraught relationship with military leadership of the Noldor under Fëanáro. I think it's safe to say that some mistakes were made all around.

Going forward, we will be expecting to have oversight of interrogation of Quendi prisoners. There should probably also be more oversight of interrogation of non-Quendi prisoners, if there are any. We are taking Maitimo back to Valinor, with appropriate precautions to be determined by Maitimo's staff working with Stef and Katha, but as a start we are going to place him in a small village in the south of Valinor and take steps to discourage travel and communications between there and Valinor's major cities, Valinor and Tol Eressëa, Tol Eressëa and Vinyamar, and Vinyamar and the undisclosed locations where war-related work is happening. In light of this Valdemar's government in exile might want to move to Vinyamar or to a different location in Valinor more insulated from Maitimo, you can let me know whenever you work out what's most convenient, and we'll of course provide whatever resources might mitigate that inconvenience. 

No one seems to have taken point on preparations to get Noldor volunteers for the plan to use them for power to build Velgarth a new god. I am going to talk with my father tonight about how we want to approach that. We should discuss whether it's safe to tell the Noldor at large about the plan at this point, and if not how many people we're comfortable informing. Fëanáro has made some progress on preparations to, in an emergency, use populations on Arda without their volunteering, but I think we may want to explore some avenues that we will close off if we do that, such as talking to the Valar and asking for their help. 

Vanyel also thinks we should talk to Velgarth's gods - specifically the one he meets when he has near-death experiences and the Star-Eyed - and ask them for help, or maybe offer it. He can do this himself, and I don't know if we have any good alternatives to him being the person to do so. It might also be a good idea to talk to Vkandis about the fact Sauron is planning to dramatically betray him but my understanding is that's significantly more complicated and maybe we should ask the friendlier gods for advice on whether or how best to do it."

Dara is quiet for a while, thinking. 

"Where's Treven?" she asks finally. "I - haven't even talked to him properly, I guess I knew he was safe, but..." 

"He is in Valinor, near Tirion, staying with the household of Queen of the Noldor who should be visiting here in two days and who may go south with her son after that."

"Do we think Vinyamar is much less safe than Valinor? It seems like it'd be more convenient for a lot of things. Also, for the Vkandis part - Queen Karis is alive, she's with Katha in a different facility, I - agreed to come over here for this." Unhappy look about it. "At this point I'm pretty sure she's not going to get unexpectedly possessed by Him and murder everyone nearby, and also I don't think it's possible for Vkandis to do that if she's in Arda, so probably she should come with us as the government in exile of Karse. But theoretically if she did want to talk to Vkandis, it's possible she could get His attention." 

"I doubt Sauron can get into Valinor, and he can get into Vinyamar, though he would have to break through the city's shielding. Unless I guess there's some way around that which he's worked out by now?" He looks at Telumë.

"Not that we learned of. I am less certain that Maitimo would have been appraised of all of his specific methods there, though. I do think that given our observations of Sauron's actions, it does not seem very likely he has countermeasures against shielding magic aside from shutting it down himself at very short range or bringing in Velgarth mages, both of which would be very obvious. ...It might be a good idea to have more Velgarth mages in Arda. The Tayledras may be willing to send people. I could also spare some from the north although there is the possibility of very suddenly needing them." 

"I think our initial hesitation there was that it'd be very easy for them to do a lot of damage if hostile. If there are people you're sure of, or can block from doing anything dangerous, it does seem bad to be relying on just Jisa and Vanyel both of whom are sometimes instead here."

"There are definitely some people I am sure of. I was hesitant at first about the Tayledras, because the Star-Eyed was not previously friendly to me, but we have already been relying on them greatly for months, and at this point I am comfortable saying that they are almost certainly not going to cause problems in Arda." 

"Then we'd love to have them. The existing cultural sensitivity guides should be updated to reflect that having sex with Quendi is even more of a bad idea than previously believed."

"...I guess at least we know now. I did the writeup on that for Valdemar's visits, I could talk to the mages who want to volunteer." 

"Thank you."

"Just trying to get the rest - sorry, I know you're not going to forget but I like having my own notes. War effort security - deciding where we want to move - Noldor volunteers, talking to your father - Vanyel talks to gods - maybe we talk to Vkandis... Any other major things I should be tracking?" 

:When is the next Gate to Arda happening and do you need me for talking to Nolofinwë: she adds in private Mindspeech to Findekáno. :I'll stay if you do need me but - I think I need a break from being here: 

I'm returning after this and you're welcome to come.

:All right. Thank you: 

And they can go through and make sure they're on the same page about a lot of other things Findekáno had no awareness of an hour ago and then he and Dara can get their Gate back. 

He wants to go see Maitimo first but he shouldn't. It hurts. He does not do it.

Jisa goes with them. Probably there should be a mage in Arda, Vanyel wants to stay anyway and hasn't been stuck here for the last forever and he can do the Gate for Fëanáro in a couple of days. And she wants to be home. She wants Treven to hold her and tell her that this isn't entirely her fault. 

Stef stays with Vanyel. He talks to Maitimo's staff who they've Gated in, before they go in to see him, mostly gives a lot of examples of humans using the kind of social levers Maitimo is incredibly skilled with in order to wreak havoc. Katha can join them the next day; she and Karis want tonight to pack up from where they've been living for the past seven months. 

Vanyel owes Maitimo a message. It's - not a good idea to have a longer conversation, given everything, but he did promise Fëanáro and he thinks he can do it without leaking much, if it's really just the one sentence and a private osanwë aside that Fëanáro wants to know if this is a situation where he should congratulate his son on his marriage and/or bring presents.

(He had a lot of practice being as unreadable as possible, with Leareth; Maitimo will inevitably read something but hopefully it won't be all that specific). 

He doesn't think he can do it and be the one to give Maitimo the news that Findekáno isn't going to be taking him home, after all. It'll hurt too much and right now his empathy is a weapon Maitimo can use. It feels very cowardly of him, but he decides to wait until Stef is done with the compressed spy training and one of Maitimo's people can be the one to say that

If this is a situation where he should bring wedding presents, he echoes incredulously.  If everyone treats this as a capstone to the political alliance between their peoples against Sauron which they should host a party about I'll be really upset. I guess if they want to give Telumë a book of marriage advice gods know he needs one.

Vanyel holds back several replies he would normally give, if this were the Maitimo he used to know. Like 'it honestly seemed like a stupid question to me too' and 'I think he was startled and in shock and will relate to it more sensibly later' and 'it should be really obvious it's not an occasion for a party but this is Fëanáro we're talking about'.

I will convey to him that you would be upset if there were a party, he sends neutrally, which will answer the question, I think. Your parents will both be here in two days' time. Your staff will stay with you until then. 

He nods to him and leaves before he can fail to hold his tongue about anything else. It's - too hard, trying to balance in his head who Maitimo is now. 

(Telumë gets stabs of lonelylonelylonelysadwant all night long.)

This is awful, especially because Telumë is, himself, incredibly lonely and sad and - he wants to take back the last three weeks, really he wants to take back everything back to his Final Strike and somehow do it better, but most of all he desperately wishes that Maitimo could hold him. And also he's aware that Maitimo is missing and wanting Findekáno, not him, which shouldn't sting but it does. 

...He did, in fact, promise Maitimo one conversation that he would remember, and he intends to keep that promise, but he has to get his head around it properly first.