Kesa bows her head politely and doesn't ask. It is probably because of the dead Elves.

It is because of the dead Elves.

It's one of Melkor's old lieutenants. He insists he did it all himself and never spoke to Melkor. The Valar take him back to Valinor to imprison there. Maitimo had a very orderly succession plan for all his projects; the work he was doing is divided among thirteen people, but it's all getting done.

He goes back to Valinor too.

Peka has been attempting to comfort Macalaurë about his dead brother. She's not especially good at it. She is now instead sitting with Katin in the palace gardens.

He sees her around a couple different times before he can make himself go say hello. "I met a girlfriend of yours," he said, "at the scene of - Kesa - I told her I'd say hello -"

"- oh, how's she doing?"

"I think she was okay. She had that picture of you and Macalaurë -"

"Aww."

" - ah, does he know - I am not going to tell him -"

"Yeah, he knows. Well, he didn't ask her name or anything, but he knows."

"I promised her we'd get them all out. It might even go faster, honestly, Fëanáro hasn't slept at all, since, and he's the source for the robotics -"

Nod.

"You okay?"

"I'm not very good at helping people feel better about - temporarily dead siblings -"

"It's Macalaure, I am not sure he wants to feel better. And - the prisoners who died died for good." Though he does not say it with much conviction.

"Yeah. I think he's mostly upset about Maitimo though."

He nods. 

He goes to see Macalaurë.

He's singing.

What a surprise. He waits.

For three days.

"What do you want," he says eventually.

"Your poor girlfriend," he says. " - that's not what I want, just an observation -"

Sigh. 

"Maitimo's gay and we shouldn't let Mandos do the resurrection."

"I don't know what we do instead. But I thought you'd want to know."

"How do you know -"