Belrun can tell that Leareth wants her and comes at a brisk walk from her room to where he is.

:I know. I...sort of knew at the time, even. Also I think it was lying that its way was actually an option. I'm pretty sure it would mind-control me into...not wanting the same things anymore: 

Leareth pulls Belrun into his arms. He's still trembling. :That was terrifying. I was not– we were just barely careful enough. I am not sure I could have walked away, if Vanyel were not there: 

He wants to share what the Ring said with her, even if he's now pretty confident it was one giant lie, but maybe it should wait until their meeting here is done. 

She hugs him very hard. :Thank you, Vanyel: she says.

:You're welcome: He's still hugging Telumë, who is still crying. Vanyel isn't sure he wants to know what the Ring offered him. 

Stef arrives and tries to extract his Vanyel. 

Sure, he can escape and go try to calm down in his room, it's not helping to keep being upset about it; the Ring was lying, there are other ways to fix it, even if not as fast, and - it's all right, it'll be all right in the end if they fix it at all - and the Ring wouldn't, actually, fulfil that promise, not really, it would twist him into something else... 

"Now we know magic in here is safe," Vanyel eventually remembers, calling it back to Leareth and Elrond. "Should I go invite Findekáno to join us?" He makes a face. "This is going to be such a mess to explain." 

"Findekáno - oh! Yes, absolutely."

The not-node is still there, so Vanyel can pull some energy from it, gather himself together, and Gate back to Vinyamar in his Arda. 

:Findekáno?: 

Yes?

:...We found Maitimo. We have, er, a kind of unbelievably weird and messy situation with a lot of other factors and we could desperately use your advice, if you're willing to come: 

Of course. Sigh. Let me guess, Telumë is having a breakdown about having to kill him.

:Er, no, it's actually about ten times weirder than that. We haven't made a decision yet to kill him, partly because we might have a new resource and partly because – gods, this is ridiculous to explain, can you just come?: 

I'm on my way.

As soon as he catches up, Vanyel raises another Gate back to Arda. :Elrond, I've got him, can you just, er, catch him up a bit?: 

He's my great-grandfather's brother and died in battle years before I was born. I will...try.

:I can explain about us arriving here but I think you'll do better explaining where we are right now: 

Sure. 

Welcome to Imladris. It is a Noldorin city in Middle-earth; it is the Third Age, and has been more than five thousand years since the Darkening of Valinor.

I see. 

Do we win?

The Valar intervened after about five hundred years but almost everyone was dead by then. In my timeline. Yours seems off-track from when Leareth arrived.

I will have to thank him, he says, sounding very slightly irritated about this.

He explained about the, uh, marriage situation. Actually Maedhros explained about it and then he - rebutted some of Maedhros's claims about other things as having been motivated by Maedhros being sworn to the service of Sauron and did not rebut the marriage-related ones. 

Right. Okay. If you were born after the war and I didn't survive it I take it we haven't met? In your timeline?

We have not. But my grandmother was your niece - Itarillë - born in Valinor -