Nod. "Findekánë's on it. And says that you should go attend a dance and a state dinner on Elenya and be reassuringly alive at people as long as you are in fact going to stay that way."

"Oh, that sounds fun. Shall we dance and upset everyone?"

"Finally time to cast off the burden of secrecy?"

"I don't know but it's mildly tempting and it's not as if I have political influence on Arda to squander."

"You have potential to reacquire it, so there's that, but it is true you don't have much incentive to carefully hoard it anymore. They're not relying on me as the sole eclipsed-with-trained-up-capacities now so I don't need to be managing my reputation, although frankly if anyone has managed not to notice that Eclipse humans are default bisexual and unimpressed with Elf norms... Anyway we can in fact turn up married within an Elf-while if someone suggests we prove how approved we are, there's that."

"Yeah. Has anyone got divorces, how'd the Valar take that -"

"Nobody yet, couple people think they're close. Valar have not to my knowledge been informed."

"That'll be fun."

"Given Loki's chat with that other Eru, if the Valar consult ours on divorce... and we get them to ask her why, if she says she doesn't like it... wonder what they'd think of that."

"I - bet she'd phrase it in some way that didn't make them feel like she's a sadistic jerk."

"Suppose they'd believe the transcript of Loki's conversation?"

"They'd probably ask their Eru if it was real."

"I'm not totally clear on the honesty policy of Erus but let's say she confirmed it."

"...I don't know. At all."

"Me either. They don't have, like, great motives, but they have... different, better ones."

"They care about people. Badly, but they do."

"Morally relevant trait of universes," snorts Isabella.

"The standard trajectory is the best way a universe could be."

"It's so great, we're very ungrateful."

"What'd be a spectacularly tragic way for her to die -"

"Yeah, that was Loki's idea too. Inconveniently previous Eru comments on the Space Arda trajectory suggest that they like death the most if somebody's sad about it, so it might involve emotional collateral damage..."

"I will be so sad."

"...yeah, gonna need to polish the acting skills before you can fool an Eru, lovely."

She bursts into almost-convincing tears.

Snuggle.