:Regrettably I do not sing well enough to make the magic songs work:

:I bet that Vanyel could do it. He would like this place in general, I think: 

:I bet he would. I suppose once the dust settles now that you know how to get here you could bring him:

:That reminds me, possibly I ought to send a message to Valdemar saying that I have located you and you are safe. I did alert them that I was making an attempt. Unfortunately I am too tired to Gate again and I do not think my usual communication-spell even works from here. I suppose it can wait a day: 

:You can nap if you like. I'll wake you if Telumë shows up:

:That is a good idea, I think: He hugs her again, kisses the top of her head, and wanders back inside the house to look for a place to sleep. 

She has a bed. She snuggles him to sleep, and extricates herself when she can tell she has succeeded at this.

:He's napping. How are you?: she asks Amshalan.

:Pretty weirded out by this entire situation, honestly! I mean, it seems like a good thing overall, this is obviously a world-changing discovery, but I could do with less ambient social tension. Especially since the most promising thing about discovering other worlds would be finding a better power source than murder, but now they're all skeptical of Leareth because an alternate version of him is sketchy– I mean, not that yours hasn't done some pretty horrifying things, but you know what I mean: 

:Yes, I do, there's 'sketchy in a fairly easy to model way for consistent reasons' and, uh, the other thing:

:...I'm going to be so sad if we meet another Leareth and it turns out he's evil and we have to fight him: 

:Are you? Did you guys get to be friends while you were looking for me?:

:I don't know if we're friends yet, it seems like it's hard to get him to that level of, er, closeness unless your name is Belrun. I like him, though, sketchiness and all. Some of the ways I think you're really great, he's like that too. And he loves you so much. He's a little scary when he goes all-out at something, but given that the thing was 'finding you', I'm not complaining: 

:Huh. What did happen, when I got - eaten or whatever that was, did you go up north?:

:Randi was panicking that Leareth would think they were responsible and start a war, so they got a frantic message drafted and then I volunteered to get dropped off with it – I figured he'd be the person best qualified to find you, and that maybe it'd help having me to study too, I could still feel– well, mostly not feel you, I could really just feel that you were far away, but I thought maybe he could follow my bond as well. He said having that as well as the lifebond made it go a lot faster, so I'm glad I went: 

:Thank you. I hope everybody in Haven is calmed down now, did Leareth send a letter back before coming here?:

:Yes, he'd been sending regular updates and he alerted them that he thought he'd found you and was going to check it out: 

:I'm really glad you're here:

His calls for Sauron get him somewhere after about a week of travelling south. They're ambushed; Maitimo's spatial reasoning deficit makes him utterly useless at even figuring out what's going on in a fight but he's pretty sure that his guide kills himself, once it's obviously hopeless. Sauron must not have a way to prevent that right now. How frustrating for him. 

Sauron is absent. Probably he is sensibly assuming this is some kind of trap. Maitimo figures he is probably in osanwë range anyway, sends him a summary. There are other universes. There's no method of travel between them with our magic, but there is with the magic they have in the other universe. Once you observe it you can copy it. Right now they'll be Gating in and out of Imladris, I don't know if you can watch closely enough but if you can it should be your top priority, because one of their top priorities will be killing you. 

I expect that you will want to test my sincerity for a while before you get to looking into this but we don't have time, so I am going to swear something contradictory for the next week and then you can hardly improve on that and can devote your attention to getting this figured out. If you have any more questions first I'm not going to be able to answer them in a minute. 

SHOW ME WHAT A GATE FELT LIKE TO YOU -

He sends that. I think you've got to be near one. Can you operate in Imladris -

NO. BUT IF THEY DEPART IT FOR ANY REASON I SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO SO.

All right. "I swear by you, my creator and my master Sauron, that for the next week I will not serve you in any way." 

And that's much, much, much worse than the pain he used to inflict himself on purpose, this is not something anyone could sustain for even a second if sustaining it required deliberate thought - there is no deliberate thought -

Substantially less suspicious, he illusions him quiet and starts north.

A long way away, in another Velgarth, their research efforts for the last week haven't gotten very far. They're now pretty sure that the bizarre creature that snatched Maitimo wasn't a Maia of Arda after all, but rather some third world's kind of magic, but that hasn't really helped, and the emotions coming in from Maitimo aren't giving them much to triangulate on. He's not in Arda. But he's maybe somewhere 'close'...

And Telumë is going to have trouble getting any further, because he is suddenly in HORRIBLE PAIN. In spite of the Empathy bond being the usual amount of attenuated for Maitimo being in another world, which means that the pain his husband is feeling must be unimaginable.

He manages to stop screaming long enough to push out an explanation, so they won't panic that he's literally dying, and then Nayoki is there, and shortly after that he is blessedly no longer conscious. 

He wakes up to a worried-looking Stef singing to him.