Vkandis has a secret army there.

:Gah? Ugh. Really?: Vanyel passes that on to Yfandes. :Er, good to know, thank you. I wasn't aware of that: He's still not sure any of her story is for real, but it's hitting bizarre level of specificity for some invented ruse. 

:Did you know a version of me?: That might actually be helpful information, in terms of judging whether this is real, since Melkor won't know anything that Leareth doesn't, and that should include a lot of things about Vanyel's life. 

Yes I do. I can teleport to him when I'm full up on mana - sort of like reserves but different in a few important ways - if you want, and loan him the earcuff.

:I would appreciate that:

Hesitation. 

:The Leareth you rescued, is he, um... What kind of shape is he in?: 

Not great. I've met Utumno victims, have one advising, but if you have a better state of the art there...

:I don't think we do: Vanyel is trying to decide if he thinks there being another Leareth there is going to be helpful or the opposite of that. :We didn't really have a plan. I guess I'd had the thought that I know a Mindhealer back in Valdemar - huh, actually, wonder if you met her. Melody?: 

Yeah, I know Melody. I can suggest it to the lucid Leareth but I'm not sure she'd add much, except not literally being me personally, I guess, which might matter since I wear many hats. He does have Nayoki around.

:Right: Vanyel doesn't actually have any idea who that is, but doesn't feel like getting into it. :So, it sounds like the next thing we should expect is to hear from you again with news on your teleport spell, or for our Fëanáro to hear from, er, the tiny one: 

Unless there's anything else I should know, yeah.

:Nobody else who's very key to the war effort has died or been captured since what happened to Leareth - which was about five months ago, if that matters. We're holding our ground and we have options. Oh, and, um, Leareth did some magic for Melkor. A handful of Gates. Months ago, and then stopped and we haven't seen any more sign of it, we don't know why, but that's some indication he was, well, compromised by him: 

We have him pretty locked down here but it's good to know, thanks.

:...If you manage to find out whether he did any more that we haven't seen the results of yet, please do let us know: 

I'll ask my Leareth, he's been taking point on the reading his alternate universe self.

:Makes sense. I think that's all? But, er, this was pretty surprising so I might've missed things. Do you think you could check back in a day, maybe?: 

Sure, I'll talk to you then.

:Talk to you then: 

And she relays to Leareth the thing about the gates and Vanyel's question.

:I think I already know that I cannot obtain an answer on whether he did additional magic. His memories of everything after he was captured are - rather sparse, actually, and everything is sort of jumbled in a very odd way. Nayoki thinks that a number of his memories have been removed, or covered up, she is not sure how: 

I can probably put the missing memories back. I don't see a reason to expect Melkor to be better at obscuring them than Mandos, and I have practice undoing Mandos's work.

:That would be very helpful. Nayoki was not sure if she could do it at all, much less in less than several years: A pause. :I do worry that it is - doing things to him, and I think I agree it would be better if we could just leave him alone and let everything be very boring for a while, but also there is potentially time-sensitive information in there: 

How about I go in and tell him I'm going to put his memories back and see if that freaks him out especially?

:That seems a good way to check, sure: 

She goes in and sits.

"I'm here to put your missing memories back."

On the one hand, this is not very unexpected, it's one of the established plot beats, even if it's the strange maybe-Herald who dresses like Quendi offering it instead of someone taking him to Lórien; it doesn't have the extra terror of being completely new and different. It's not worth being curious about and it doesn't matter one way or another, since it's not like he has any way of judging if the memories are real ones (on priors they aren't, but going off that is dangerously close to reasoning about it.)

On the other hand, it is an established plot beat and that means more things are going to happen. Maybe. It's not like he can especially predict the future from the present. 

Leareth doesn't respond in any way. He's some amount more scared, but not to the extent of fully panicking about it. 

He's not super panicky about it, just generally anxious.

She starts sweeping away memory fog. Sweepsweepsweep.