"Elves can get divorced. They really, really don't, and Mirelótë in particular is rather the last person I'd expect, but it's allowed ever since Eru admitted it was only prohibited for tragic reasons."

"My mother's back."

"Oh good! Bella saved mine - how'd they fix yours -"

"The Valar changed oaths so they can't be binding over future actions anymore."

"...that's good of them..."

"Yes, freed all the orcs too. Even Melkor was glad."

"...huh."

"It has drawbacks but it's much safer. In the end the polling was very supportive of the change."

"They polled people."

"Hmm? Yeah, of course, it affected us! They were going to do it just for people who individually wanted it, if the population was split enough, but defaulting to off for new people and once we talked it through we just thought making the change uniformly as a society was more elegant..."

"They almost don't sound like Valar. But last time I got told that the local gods weren't like the ones I was used to and believed it, it was - bad."

Shrug. "I don't like gods much, that's why we settled on the opposite side of the planet."

Nod.

He leaves.

"Well, that's interesting."

"Yeah."

"I want to be so powerful no one can squish me instead of counting on it that they probably wouldn't do something like that."

"Sure, but in the meantime..."

"In the meantime here is probably an okay place to stay."

Nod.

"Electricity's really cool."

"I didn't really follow the explanation."

Then she will get another, slower one! With illusion demonstrations - "I learned this spell so I could write after they took away my paper" -

"Makes sense, it must have been hard to invent it when you couldn't write -"