...that I'd have a hard time guessing at from the outside - whatever's more normal for you, probably -

I mean, if she were from Eclipse she would in fact not be a sub, so I never went around stereotyping it up.

- leaning instructions. Island doesn't think it is apparent to her that you're still interested.

Okay. I'm - I'm just very sensitive to the possibility of coming off as threatening.

Understandably. I avoided him for the better part of a decade but that's going to mess you up more than me and she had Boots, she won't have the flashbacks, she still wants you -

Nod.

What else do you need?

On the 'her people-modeling skills are selectively failing her' front is there a good way to go around that or anything? I don't like it.

That bit goes away once they think it's real. I - don't know how to get there with her, she's got to be mostly sure already -

Asked her the other day if it'd be out of character for Maira to provide fake lucid dreams in which she method acted me-reading-books the entire time but apparently only a little and it's not unlikely given all the trouble this scenario represents in the first place.

Was it terribly satisfying to murder her.

Only regret I did it from a distance.

Maybe we can figure out a way to transport 'em, let you handle some up close.

That'd be delightful.

Your world's strangest because it wasn't even strategic to annoy you.

Is that usually strategic? Annoying Loki sure backfired.

True. Maybe they just can't help themselves.

Seems likely. What I don't know is how Maira was talking to Melkor before she got out.

Can a postcog or something check that? Does Liz know?

Haven't tried asking her, let me see - If she asks Gem to send somebody to ask -

"Huh - oh, if you swear by a Vala they know the content of what you swore -"

She reports this to Pterodactyl. "Has some implications for Telperion."

"...yeah. I think someone's been assigned to hurry the Valar on that Sauron -"

"Who, I should let them know -"

"Friend of Scroll's, I think. I'll tell him -"