"Goblets?"

"Apparently there are goblets that duplicate every time you touch them. This is, on Earth, incredibly dangerous, but if you could figure out a way for them to duplicate with, like, a wrapper covering all but one hard-to-touch-by-accident section of the goblets, then you'd have as many goblets as you wanted without the thing where they immediately crush you under a mountain of gold. Experiments into this are ongoing in Heaven where the mountain of gold is not a problem."

"Oh, neat. If that can be done with something more useful than goblets especially."

"Looks like angels can change 'em around to some degree but not arbitrarily. I am excited about the potential for arbitrary quantities of various-forms-of-container, maybe better bricks or something as well, probably not clothes unless our local wizards invent a new spell for it..."

"My dad says pillows are in particular demand, his couch usually doesn't have cushions on it, but that's hard to do in gold."

"Yeah, if they change the material they lose the infinite-copying effect. We'll keep toying with things. I've sent everyone a list of all ongoing experiments, you can check up on us..."

"Sure, thanks."

"It's long but I doubt it's exhaustive, feel free to add things. Especially you wizards, I get the sense that lots of things about your magic aren't easily derived from reading your books about it so we're probably missing a lot there."

"Is Macalaure going to be out there singing for days."

"He's getting his share of the research into magical and Muggle governments of every country done, so probably yes."

"Simultaneously?"

"Attentional capacity blessings are really convenient."

"They sound it."

"We have people working on ones without the obvious drawback."

"I'm still waiting for Michael to suddenly faint from his experimental brain surgery."

"Different experimental brain surgery - we have the chips that make us resurrectable, as far as I know no one not an Elf has tried those ones yet."

"Yes, but it would be hard to check for the same reason."

"Ideally daeva'd lead the way but I'd really rather people trying it do so with informed consent, which means knowing it makes them forkable, which we probably shouldn't tell daeva..."

"The problem is wizards may have magic brain architecture. I can't even test on basement dwellers and expect it to hold for wizards."

"Hopefully they daevafy, that's a better solution than chips where it works..."

Nod.

It takes Timothy a few days to get everybody settled in on the Moon; the angels don't take that long to restore the prisoners to good physical health, and he sends them home when they're done. The Elves think they should stay at least medium-term, make sure the prisoners have people to talk to. The Elves still strongly disapprove of the 'prisoners' concept altogether but Maitimo was correct in predicting that they would do what Timothy said regardless of whether they thought it was right.

Which is vaguely worrying but he does in fact think these people belong in prison, so.

When he returns home it's to two hundred pages of research summaries and intervention proposals. "Wow."

"Did I strike the wrong balance on how much detail to forward you, I don't know what not being chipped is like -"

"Can't you turn it off? This is fine. Everyone getting along?"

"Your brother's upset because Amriac hasn't left Macalaurë's side - he's out there singing - and you missed that Cam and Miranda are the same person, but other than -"