"Usually they probably don't have eclipsed. Poor Ingwë."

"Are eclipsed troubling Ingwë?"

"A couple philosophers have decided they have ethical objections to being precogged, and started lobbying for this to be accommodated! It struck a chord and now Ingwe has hundreds of conscientious objectors to precognition!"

"...that's genuinely inconvenient!"

"I know, right? How's my cousin doing -"

"I have solicited advice in making the answer to that question be 'better'."

"...okay. And you?"

"I have an empire now!"

"I heard! Congratulations!!"

"It's pretty swell!"

"I noticed my cousins disappearing one by one. I take it you've got more interesting problems than Ingwë."

"Guilty. Has Maitimë been poaching too much or can you do without them?"

"Honestly Maitimë's the only one we've missed and she - obviated herself very neatly and carefully back before you had the coma spell together -"

"And then had nothing to do and had to go conquer something, yep."

"We can find her stuff to do here if that'd be good for her, I just don't know -"

"...not right now, I think."

"Okay. - did you need anything or -"

"Pterodactyl's idea. You will probably want your own nickname, your actual name being just barely unique. What exactly did you have in mind -?" she adds to Pterodactyl.

"Usually we are helpful to Maitimos in recovering I think mostly for reasons that still apply, and I'm worried about the thing where yours cut off all her ties here, so you should check on her."

"Can do."

"You could tell her you want to open trade relations with the new empire or something, I'm not sure. She's not going to reach out to you."

"I'd noticed. I'll look out for her, if you think it'd help."

"I do think so."

"Okay." And to Isabella, "in that case tell my cousin that everyone misses her and that if she's not in fact gonna die she should show up next Elenya and be reassuringly alive at them, there's a dance and state dinner and so on."

"I'll let her know. Thank you."