"So Ring Sauron and whatever distinguishes the other one."

“He’s allied with Vkandis, so, Vkandis Sauron I guess?”

"That makes it sound like they merged into some horrifying dual entity."

"...Ugh. You're right. Er, Velgarth Sauron? Anyway, I should go back to scrying for him." Vanyel shuffles a little away from the group. 

Belrun looks concernedly at Telumë. "...would two of, uh, Stef, be better than one at this, does he even have the Wild Gift yet in 803?"

Stef stops humming but keeps playing. "I did. I would be twelve. You should get other me, he'll think it's a very exciting adventure. Which is sort of naive of him but I can keep him out of trouble." 

"Okay. Anyone else from 803 we should get?"

"I think your Vanyel is, er, not having the best year, if I recall correctly, but we could consider grabbing him for additional firepower. Or, oh! We should get Savil. Our Savil died. She's not as powerful as Van but she's been a mage forty years longer than him, she knows a lot of magic that could end up being useful." 

"Sure, Savil's neat. I think Vanyel's probably doing better now that Yfandes is talking to him again though. Like, today would be a bad time but maybe next week? I guess I don't know how long it usually takes him to bounce back from things."

"Hmm, I think next week would be reasonable if we're going to make sure he gets enough sleep and has friendly people checking in with him, possibly our Vanyel could do a fine job of that." She glances at Telumë. "But I think ideally we would get other Stef right away. Er, Leareth, how tiring are inter-world Gates?" 

"Significantly more tiring than ordinary ones." 

"You can draw power from Arda magic artifacts," Telumë says absently. "Elrond, can he use your magic ring." 

"What does that entail."

"Our kind of mage can sort of pull energy from it. It does not do anything to the artifact." 

Elrond frowns. He studies the ring for a second. 

Then he - concentrates the ambient magic of Imladris, it flows like there's suddenly a 'downriver' and it's right in front of him, and adds more of it, until - it's not quite like there's a node right there but it's like if he kept at that for an hour there would be. 

"Can you use that."

"Yes. Thank you." Leareth is very impressed! "That is very helpful. Belrun, the other difficulty is where to Gate to. I assume that both Savil and Stef are currently in Haven. We could use the concert technique again, however, I think Valdemar's government might still react better if you and Amshalan go in without me. What do you think?" 

"You're probably right, yeah."

Leareth is not delighted about Belrun going without him, but at least she'll be with Amshalan. With a power source right there, he can take a few minutes to fully replenish his reserves, and then raise a Gate big enough for Amshalan, to whichever place Belrun thinks is best suited and provides to him. (He thinks it would probably be better to do it a little further from the Palace, to avoid hitting Vanyel unexpectedly with a Gate at near range.) 

And while he's doing that she makes sure she knows how long she has to fetch whom exactly.

Leareth will give her two candlemarks, in case some running around finding people and convincing them needs to happen, and also because the entire situation kind of needs some explaining. If she's not waiting for the return Gate at the same spot, he'll try Mindspeaking her first, he thinks he can hold it for five or ten minutes if Elrond is keeping the power source around, and if he can't reach her with Mindspeech then he's coming in to look for her, whether or not it upsets the Heralds. 

Melody thinks it's less of a bad idea to pull in Vanyel if Savil is coming too, actually, but suggests Belrun ask Savil directly for her read on it. They can always collect him later; getting Stef is the most urgent. 

"Okay. Is Stef a Mindspeaker or will I need to get ahold of him some other way?"

"He's not, but Savil will know who is at Bardic, or they can send a runner." 

"Okay." Belrun writes this all down. "Anyone else I should ask for, or definitely take or not take if Savil suggests them?"

"Ummm. I doubt you need to be told not to take Jisa? I don't think you should take Shavri even though she's wonderful, since she's lifebonded to the King. Other than that I'm not thinking of any glaringly obvious yeses or nos."