"Mage gift, Thoughtsensing, Mindspeech, I think that's it but mage gift is very flexible when you're good at it and he is."

"Telumë doesn't have Thoughtsensing or Mindspeech, he just uses mage-gift to make me send thoughts. - when he gets a new body he gets new Gifts."

"Are there any other people we could send a message about how you two are trapped in the wrong world."

"Belrun's Vanyel, maybe? He managed to derive interworld Gating himself, in our timeline. But I don't think either Leareth or Telumë will hurt your people as an opening move. - I guess Leareth did secretly practice compulsions on my people as soon as he showed up, to make sure they worked as he expected. ...but they won't hurt your people very much."

"Mine has to keep me happy, which I think, uh, tones him down some in the messing with people's heads department. Also like he'll be able to tell that I'm not dead or alarmed as soon as he's close enough because lifebond."

"What exactly is a lifebond?"

"I described what they - I guess I described how they happen and not as much about what they do afterwards? Uh, hurts to be far apart, usually drives people to suicide if the other party dies, direct experiential access to the other's emotions within range though I wouldn't expect him to get anything at this distance, I'm not. Though I can tell he's alive, I think I'd notice if he weren't or at least if I were too far away to tell then not being able to tell would feel like him being dead. Lifebonded partners find one another particularly appealing and interesting and attractive and important. It wasn't actually obvious to me right away that he needed me not only happy but genuinely happy without my own slate of mind control keeping me that way while things sucked around me but that was cleared up pretty early on, it does seem like he either actually can't take shortcuts and have that work or he's strongly enough averse to it that he wouldn't try even if it wouldn't be directly disabling."

He does not venture a guess.

"Our marriages don't involve any kind of mind control. They have some of the same sensory effects, varies by couple -"

"We get shared dreams, and empathy - attenuated over this distance - and I can sense when he's doing magic, and details of it when I'm closer."

"Empathy is kind of mind control."

"You can send emotions with osanwë but they don't show up like your own emotions, they're - a sort of sensory input - it's like that. - though I can hurt myself and it hurts him too. I...have done that, when I was in custody of people who wouldn't stop me. I know it's very childish. I haven't done it recently."

"You've been shuffled around between custodians?"

"Earlier on, yeah. Not for a while now."

"Why?"

"At first the King of the Noldor - my father - thought I could be talked around into remembering my place and rejoining my people - and he was angry with Telumë about the marriage, and didn't want him to keep me. Then it came out that I'd told the gods he was planning a massacre, prompting them to intervene, and he disowned me and sent me back to Telumë and - Telumë says told him to do as he liked. Telumë could be lying about that but I bet he isn't, sounds exactly like my father when he's angry."

"Augh."

"Alqualondë?" he says distantly.

" - is that where it happened in your timeline?"

"A lot of things happened in my timeline that I don't think occurred in yours. But - yes, Curufinwë Fëanáro led the Noldor into a massacre at Alqualondë. Over the boats, the Noldor needed them to leave."

"He doesn't need the boats, in my timeline, he just directly gets magical power from killing people, and he figured out how to use the Silmarils to do it. I don't know where he was planning to go first."

"Elves can get magical power from killing people too?"

"Not normally but my father figured out how to use some powerful artifacts of his to channel blood magic for use by Velgarth mages."

"Channel it for them?"

"For the plan to build a god, I think. I don't actually know very much about this, on a technical level it was never my area of expertise and on a political level no one told me they were doing it, I just pieced together that the massacres were planned and warned the Valinor gods. I - understand why Telumë wants to build his god, I could imagine a situation in which it'd conceivably be worth it, but -"