Certainly, on reflection, a warning would have helped and could not have hurt—although, to be perfectly fair, I didn't at all expect that Vanyel would be 'in range' of the Ring, or that its effects would be so quick—in the stories of it that I'm familiar with, it took months of carrying it to have an effect similar to what it did to him.

At any rate, the explanation of magic is not urgent—anytime before the next mission would be fine—but I would be interested in your input on the plan going forward. Time that passes here doesn't affect anything, so we can to wait for you to recover more, if you would like to be more involved in the planning or the missions themselves.

Nod. "I think that is a good idea. I will be able to help with planning sooner than I can do magical research safely, so - tomorrow we can discuss? With Vanyel as well, if he is recovered enough for it." 

He relays this to Thor and Fëanor, and adjourns the planning meeting for the following day.

By morning, Vanyel is feeling mostly back to normal. Before the meeting starts, he takes a walk near Fëanor's house. Savil mentioned that the Elves sing a lot, and he kind of misses music right now. 

"Hey, glad to see you're feeling better. I'm sorry about what happened with the Ring," Tony tells him when he arrives at the meeting. "We definitely could have planned that better. On that note, we're about to go over the plan for the Reality Stone again. Do you know if Leareth's coming? I think he said he wanted to be here."

:Right, er, one second: 

Vanyel reaches out with Mindspeech. :Leareth? Are you coming to the planning meeting?: 

:- What?: 

About three seconds later, Leareth is actually awake. :I apologize for being late. Nayoki neglected to wake me up for it. I will be right over: 

Vanyel relays to Tony that Leareth is on his way. 

He's there within five minutes, moving stiffly but otherwise looking well enough. :So. What is the plan so far?: 

"There's three Stones left to get. The last known locations of Reality and Power were both in 2014—that's about four years before the present, by our calendar. Reality on Asgard, where Thor is from. He can get there easily, though he probably shouldn't go without backup. Power on a planet called Morag, with some protections but not actively guarded. We don't have any way of getting there unless you guys can figure out long-range portals with the Space Stone." He doesn't mention the Soul Stone—they all know about that, and no one wants to talk about it.

Leareth nods, glancing over at Vanyel. :I am fairly confident that I can figure out long-range Gates in a few more days. ...Though if I accompany Thor to Asgard, and something goes sufficiently wrong that I am injured again, it will delay things. Possibly that means we should send Vanyel or Savil instead: 

He frowns for a moment. :Hmm. Tony, how - obvious - are those times and places, as opportunities to retrieve the Stones? How likely is it that Thanos will come for us again?: 

"I'll have to ask Thor that." And he relays the question.

"I don't think that more than a few people actually ever knew that the Reality Stone was on Asgard. It was only there briefly—my father had it sent away to be hidden as quickly as possible. This turned out to be a mistake, actually, since Thanos had spies in the new hiding place who were able to locate it easily, which he did not on Asgard—at least to the best of my knowledge. The Power Stone was on Morag for—likely thousands of years before it was retrieved, although it was only accessible for a brief period once every three hundred during that time.

"Under better circumstances, I think you would be interested in seeing Asgard, Leareth. We possessed—both advanced magic and high technology, such that one often couldn't tell one from the other, while on other worlds they often seem to be mutually exclusive. It is very unlikely that you will be injured there."

:You should go, Leareth: Vanyel says instantly.

:Perhaps both of us should: 

"Both of you could come. The Bifröst that Stormbreaker can summon is really intended just for me, but it can carry two, maybe three others. It would be helpful if we had someone good at illusions—I would be recognized instantly anywhere on Asgard, but look different enough from how I did at the time that it would quickly get very awkward."

Mention of the Bifröst reminds Tony to ask something.

"Hey, how come you can get to Asgard, and not Morag or Vormir?" At least he's assuming that, since Thor ought to have mentioned it if he could.

"The Bifröst only works between worlds on the Yggdrasil, the great World-Tree that connects the Realms."

"And, uh, Valinor is?"

Vague gesture at the nearest window and the giant glowing Trees beyond it.

"Huh. I didn't think that was the relevant sort of tree."

"It's strange, actually. You know, when I first heard about Valinor my Allspeak tried to render the word as Asgard! It took me a little while to figure out that wasn't what you were talking about. I guess if there's some etymological connection between the names—"

"There wouldn't be, unless you're a Vala. Which I'm fairly sure you're not."

"We were worshipped as gods by some people on Midgard [elves will hear Endórë and Leareth and Vanyel will hear whatever word Valdemaran has adopted for Earth] about a thousand years ago. Humans are easily impressed. I wouldn't think that would matter for Allspeak, though."