"He could've made me swear an oath but I don't think he would have done. Mindhealing and compulsions might look different?"

"Might be. We'll see where we're at once I've removed what I can. How are you feeling?"

"Tiniest bit dizzy. My ears aren't ringing, exactly, but it's like they remember that they were. The last time I snapped a bad compulsion it wore off in a couple of minutes, I don't notice anything suggesting this is different."

"All right. Have a bit more water."

He does this. "Tyelperinquar made the rings?"

"Yes. With Sauron, who - came to us under the name Annatar, a Maia of Aulë's. Offered to work with him on all kinds of projects. Human immortality, resurrection outside Valinor, interfaceable artifacts, shielding of cities -"

"My father died before accomplishing any of those?"

"Your father died in the first weeks of the war."

"Oh."

"He made enough stupid decisions to damn you all and then died before seeing the price of any of them."

"That sounds about right. Is he back yet?"

"He is not. None of you are."

"What, not even the cousins? It is hard to imagine they could've gotten up to much wrongdoing at my father's insistence."

"Not his, but yours.

- I think some of them are back. Not all. We get word from Valinor very infrequently."

"I assume I'd cause all sorts of problems if I showed up, never mind that I didn't do any of these things."

"It would be very complicated. Maybe you could stay atop of all its complications."

"I'd prefer to stay here, I'm just - worrying about Telumë."

"He sounds worrying."

"I feel better."

"All right. Close your eyes, try not to have many thoughts, and I'll see if I can get another one."

A day later he can be found out of the healing halls singing on a balcony, looking at a waterfall.

"Hey, you're looking better."

"He got most of them! There's a couple more of the type he knows how to undo, which he's going to get to later, and then some he doesn't, but they don't seem to be doing anything which is actively crippling moment-to-moment so I am inclined to live with it for now, maybe ask the Vala of healing someday."

"There are types?"

"To whatever sensory apparatus he is using there are types. My best guess is that he can get compulsions but not Mindhealing."