Hug.

"...anyway that's horrible but if they don't kill Dad -"

"One of them."

"Sorry."

"Can you take me to them -"

"Yeah."

A while later she goes home for a hug.

She can have all the hug she wants.

"Went okay. They were annoyed no one'd told them about other Ardas before, I explained it was daeva information security, the daeva present pointed out that they apparently had a much better track record than my species did - someone said that no, remember, there was that demon who'd holed a planet -"

"...yeesh."

"They all agreed it made sense to let worlds that wanted privacy from conjuring have it, though - that was the framing that made the most sense to them - and they. Appreciated knowing. So."

"Thanks for going." Snuggle.

"On the bright side apparently all the Shadow Dwarves moved out as soon as the war was over, there was a note in the file."

"Good for them."

"Yep."

"...did it go okay with your alts or did you just avoid non-Dwarf subjects -"

"They're all super friendly and when I explain that our people kill all of the Dwarves in Menegroth all of them say "oh no, what did they do" - meaning the Dwarves, to provoke it - and I wish they wouldn't say that."

Hug.

Hug. "- you get what I mean, right -"

"Yeah, of course, the question should be 'what happened' or maybe 'why do we do that'."

"Yeah - and I don't like thinking that me knowing that is so - path-dependent - I would ask my Millennia alt, I bet she's not like that and if she's not I'd feel better, but I'm sure she knows already."

"You can make a social visit even if she doesn't need a heads-up about Dwarves at this point."

"Yeah, but I don't know a good question to - get at that thing."

"It might just come out after enough conversation but maybe not, I don't know."

"Maybe." Snuggle.