"Mm. I wonder at Nayoki not just quitting after - I guess maybe she doesn't think Elf marriage is like lifebonds."

"Nayoki?"

"His Mindhealer. I think he only has one, they're rare, though I guess he could wind up needing to replace her in the next few years."

"Can his staff even quit?"

"Yes, I checked when I found out about the employment compulsions thing."

"Well, if I met her I don't remember it but they do the memory thing with Mindhealing, and the spatial reasoning thing, and maybe some other stuff they didn't mention. Means I can't really wander very far."

"Why'd they do that?"

" - the spatial reasoning thing? It's related to the thing Elrond mentioned, where it's dangerous to imprison Quendi, we die of it. It's - a shock reaction, a thing humans do have which is vaguely analogous is mistaking a food for a poison and swelling your own throat closed trying to fight it. - anyway they must have discovered that if you break a Quendi's spatial reasoning then it doesn't happen."

"I guess that's... clever..."

"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."