"There's old ones but we don't have better memories than humans or anything."

"Huh. I don't know if we do, unenhanced, but everyone takes at least some enhancements."

"Some demons'll probably chip themselves and try stuff."

"They should keep in mind that unless they figure out some clever security trick we haven't, that means we'll have backups of them."

"You will? From all the way there?"

"Don't know if it works across dimensions, that hasn't been tested yet. Even if it doesn't, it'd catch them if they took summons to Arda."

"Huh, good to know."

"Chips're great but people should be informed about the risks, especially since I take it you guys are used to not having to think about risk much."

"We really are!"

"Valinor was like that, too. And then when things fell apart it turned out we had no idea how to handle it."

"I remember there being a song about that."

"There'll probably be more. I've been busy."

Nod nod.

He starts singing again.

Eeeeeeee!

He'll be doing that for the next two days or so!

Amriac has an infinite supply of coffee and noplace to be until Michael wants to take her to meet dragons!

Michael has gone inside.

"You okay?"

"I wouldn't steal his extremely temporary casual girlfriend!"

"Elves don't really do extremely temporary casual girlfriends - Elves mostly actually don't do premarital sex - so I think you're safe."

"Wait, really - but he's thousands of years old -"

"And you have probably had more romantic adventures than him, yes. ...it'd be the wrong narrative?"

"...oh."

"Wrong narrative?"