"I'll take that as a no. Dream, anybody else I should compute while I'm here?"

"My sister's'll probably all want one, I'll call them -" pause - "yeah, if you don't mind waiting a minute -"

"Can do." He has his own computer and fusses with it.

And here come sisters! "This is Isabella as a boy?"

"Yes," she says, more defensively than is actually necessary.

"Hi, Isabella as a boy."

"How do the computers work -"

"Hi, Tyelcormo as a girl. Uh, I am in fact competent to give a software engineering lecture but I am kind of booked timewise, I can't help you on the hardware and suspect you should just read the developers' documentation, which your alts have probably conveniently tucked into a folder for you," he tells Curufinwë.

"I'll do that."

Cam wiggles his fingers. "Chipped and," he hands out computers, "computerized, tutorial should be self-explanatory, yours is already in your alphabet," he tells Tyelcormë, "but our universal translation solution fixes that as an incidental, swing by Vanda Nossëo whenever to get that installed."

"Nelyafinwë Maitime, you did not mention universal translation -"

"How could it possibly have slipped my mind."

They both burst into giggles.

"...what'd - someone - do -"

"Isabella has a therapist alt and I have a terrible family - I love you all so much, I missed you so much, I'm so sorry -"

"...anyone need anything else while I'm here?"

"Are you doing resurrections, I have a dozen of those I'm personally invested in. Otherwise no."

"I can't solo them, but if you want a pile of basement-dwellers for Matirin to wake up whenever he has a few minutes I can do that? Mind this doesn't work on Flat Elves, you're nonreductionist."

"Yeah, we've been told. We've got mages for the ones who aren't destroyed forever and - well, most psion stuff is reversible. Though I don't know if I should hope for that. These are human kids, anyway."

"Human kids should work fine. The destroyed forever will have to wait for Loki to finish her generic resurrection spell, that's still decades off, her magic system envies snails their alacrity, where do you want your basement dwellers?"

"Here's fine, I can move them in a bit."

"ETA on Matirin appearing? Affects how much maintenance whatnot I attach."

"Apparently he's off hopping his neighbors - which we're going to do also, once Golden's free, Eclipse neighbors are particularly likely to be problematic - so it could be a couple days, doubt it'd be more than that."

"Okay then. Who'm I making for you?"

Names!

Basement dwellers!