Yes - please - I think that'd help a lot, it's the only line that feels like it might resonate with them -

I will go explain the situation to them while you speak to your father. And he'll keep checking the communications artifact every so often as he goes off to gather up the Valdemarans and Queen Karis, seeing if he can reach either Vanyel or Jisa. 

Nope.

Maitimo's feelings have settled to grim, sort of bitter satisfaction and he has gone back to torturing himself regularly.

Sigh. 

Treven looks visibly alarmed by the time Telumë finishes his explanation, which is rare for him. "Gods! Is Jisa..." He folds his arms over his chest. "I think she's all right - I'd know. She's with the Valar. This is awful - I can't believe he did something like that." 

"I can't believe I missed it." 

Dara takes a deep breath, lets it out, reaches to squeeze Treven's shoulder. "We'll go. I don't know that it'll do much good but we can make a case to them." 

Karis nods, worriedly. "I will come with you." 

The Valar announce that they are very disappointed in everyone and the Silmarils have been fetched and there will be more discussion in a week when cooler heads and some dignitaries from Vinyamar arrive. 

Dignitaries from Vinyamar?

Prince Findekáno Astaldo of the Noldor, Queen Karis of Karse, and King Treven of Valdemar.

He looks baffled.

Vanyel doesn't know either. Magic is still blocked, he can't check. Mindspeech isn't working either, but he can use osanwë with Quendi. Telumë knew something - I couldn't get a message to him, they blocked magic, but he'd already reached out to Jisa. I think he probably Gated to Vinyamar and...I don't know what happened then. But presumably he guessed approximately what happened, and informed some people. 

They're taking the Silmarils! What does it help to have more people here??

Honestly I have no idea. Maybe they're hoping to argue for the plan of getting them out of Arda via sticking them in Velgarth, and we do have representatives of two major Velgarth countries. 

I guess! He is clearly furious and terrified and miserable and has no outlet for it and no idea what to do about that. I hate them! I hate them so much!

I'm sorry. Sigh. Well, we can't use magic and we can't leave, so - let's try to make a camp somewhere nice and far from Maitimo? He won't be able to cast wards. Rolan can't use Thoughtsensing. He certainly can't set up an osanwë. The Valar have just made everyone a lot more vulnerable to Maitimo. 

We could kill him. 

...Can we please not upset the Valar any more? I'm really sorry, just - I can't currently use magic and if they decide they want something to happen... Also I don't think we can get to him. Vanyel demonstrates trying to take a step against the wind. It doesn't work. Really hope that means he can't get to us either, because if he comes at me there is absolutely nothing I can do about it with magic, and he's bigger and stronger. 

STUPID IDIOT GODS I WANT TO KILL THEM NEXT.

Fëanáro, we can still talk to the Valar about this. There are some people coming who might help us do that.

We need to take a breath and think and at some point we'll have the chance to act again, Vanyel adds. Not right now. ...I really hope they're not planning on pinning us down like this for the next week, I do not have a week's worth of food and water on me. I think they're probably less stupid than that? 

I think probably they are in a state of extreme panic right now because they just had the first violent crime in Valinor in history and then another one at the trial for the first one. I bet that in a couple of hours they will have a plan, though I don't know that it will be a very good plan. Yelling at them won't help.

That's how they do it, right, that's how they shape an entire world of people into their servants, they're very nice so long as you don't make them angry, they're very nice so long as you don't forget to be courteous, they're very nice as long as you don't scare them but everything scares them and so you end up so sculpted while they insist that they abhor violence, they've never used it, everyone's attentive enough to the implicit threat they never have to -