"Elspeth did basically get along with your Shadow alt, so that might actually be less awkward than Space, but I'm not sure. Would you want to do the better one or the worse one first, anyway?"

"Not really sure. Probably get it over with -"

"Space'd probably also be - closer to home?"

"Yeah, I'd have a better sense of - what was going on, there - though we don't actually have a late-timeline Space Arda to tell them 'this is exactly what will happen' -"

"Yeah, it'd wind up all being by analogy. I'm not sure what the Space equivalents of some of your Millennium alt's adventures even would be."

"Yeah, I wonder - also, presumably the Maedhros doesn't get rescued, I don't really have a sense of how Space could play out at all like the standard timeline -"

"...yeah. I mean, the uploads could be shut down somehow? I guess they could be copied in software form if for some insane reason somebody wanted to do that?"

"That doesn't get you 'fucked-up but functional enough to settle a succession dispute and build a depressing castle and run a war', that gets you - people've tried rescue forks, people agreed never to try it again -"

"Yeah, no idea, hope we never find a late stage Space Arda to find out because holy shit late stage plus Space eugh."

"Yeah. I'll. Let you know how it goes."

Hug.

She goes to Space. She is briefly distracted by Menegroth with hundreds of stories and underground spires and upside-down skyscrapers. 

Her alt comes out to meet her.

"Hi!"

"Hi. I'm - here to talk to the Dwarves, can I do that -"

"They don't have, like, a government, or an ambassador or whatever, but yeah, sure, what about - are you okay -"

Hug.

Hug!

"Your city's really pretty."

"Thank you!"

"This is kind of upsetting."

"Yes, I guessed that. Because you were upset."

"A couple hundred years in the future the people of Menegroth kill all the Dwarves living here - at least in flat Arda timelines - and we thought the Dwarves - should know -"

"What do they do-"

"One of them kills our dad but - one of them - and it bothers me that my alts always ask that -"

Hug?