"He's very clever." He sounds kind of wistful.

"Yeah." Sigh.

"Anyway. If there's anything else we should compare notes on I am leaving in the morning. And will still be reachable for about a day after that, but we should probably try to cover it now."

"I don't really know what's likeliest to be applicable."

"I don't know either. I didn't pay a lot of attention to Velgarth history during our war....did Leareth already do something stupid that almost caused Lineas, Baires and half of western Valdemar to be swallowed in an earthquake, if that has not yet happened he should definitely go get his powerful artifact out of the palace in Lineas before his allies there do that. The Valar can fix Randi, and they should, because Treven turns out to be really hard to work with. The new King's Own is great, though. There's - some lord in Valdemar, I wish I had a name for you - funding the rebels in Karse, Vanyel's future lifebonded and his roommate at Bardic will discover the plot eventually and almost get murdered in the process but maybe you could scoop them, get it over with sooner. Jisa does not really ever get better at patient ethics. Someone should maybe try harder on that front because Treven's head over heels for her and I do not think political power will be improving. Uh, King of Rethwellen dies peacefully of old age in his bed and his successor's fine."

"...remove artifact from Lineas to prevent earthquake, okay," she says, writing that down. "Valar can fix Randi - who's Treven? - in my world Dara listened to me too hard and Rolan repudiated her, is she who you mean, she's great but - Jisa doesn't get better? That's terrible -"

"Treven is the heir they scrouge up for Randi. Maybe at thirty he'd be good at it but they should not put it on him at 16. Dara's the one who is great, ouch, don't....I don't know what to do about that. Jisa gets....subtler? It's awful but no one parents her, Shavri's too busy trying to save Randi and Randi's too busy dying. Vanyel will get to the earthquake if Leareth doesn't but hundreds of innocent people will still die, and hundreds of guilty ones. Maybe just try to talk him down from making artifacts that pursue to death all blood relatives of the initial target anywhere in the world."

"...why did he even do that?"

"We don't really have the kind of relationship where I question him but I'd be fascinated by the answer yours gives."

"Welp, I have written down this question now."

"If it is before that it is also before the time he assassinates Vanyel accidentally; he placed a compulsion years ago on Vanyel's family priest, to murder him if he ever got a chance, and then - lost track of it?"

"That's so... specific? I guess I'll mention that to him too." Note note.

"I assume there were at one point lots of people wandering around with similar orders but he says he revoked most of them, just missed this guy. I'm not thinking of anything else but probably I should think about it a while longer before I leave."

"Do you think you need to know anything from my timeline?"

"I'm not sure. Probably some of it will be useful to Telumë but - by that point things had deteriorated far enough I didn't even want him to win, right, so - I don't know. It sounds like they should go look for a version of you somewhere?"

"I suppose if I'd never met him I'd probably still be studying microbiology at the university of Petras."

"Well, I hope they go and find you and - give you the chance to try to figure out what's worth steering and in which direction. ....do you think Telumë would lifebond to you -"

"Uh, not me-me, since I'm taken, but Other Belrun, maybe? I think gods have to do that manually so probably not unless your timeline is a test of a very complicated intervention."

"I think they're past toying with Telumë and just try to kill him every time they see him at this point."

"Yeah, then they probably don't set him up with a lifebond - our initial guess was that they were going to assassinate me and hope that lasted longer than killing him but no murder attempt materialized."

"Huh. Well. Good skill with continuing to be alive. And - much happiness, I guess, with the lifebond."

"It's reasonably pleasant as mind control goes when I'm not learning about atrocities he's committed but, oh well, not the first time that's happened!"

He giggles, a little. "I'm sorry. I appreciated your help, a lot. I hope your world goes much better than ours."

"Thank you."

He leaves the next day. He takes a guide. He tells Elrond he's going for Círdan's. Talks the guide around once they're a few days outside Imladris; he wants to go live in a city of men, actually, not one where people associate his face and his name with crimes that in his world never happened. 

Calls out, every night, with osanwë, to the person he loves most in the world. I am here. Come and find me.