" - we, uh, work differently."

"There is a footnote about that, yes."

"It'd still be an improvement but I think it makes it a harder sell. As would, ah, any association with my cousins."

"It's not anything like the priority here with the Valar, I just didn't want it to be ambiguous to you if I might know."

Nod. "They're happy?"

"Yes."

"He asked me to kill him. When I got him out. I should have - then none of this would have happened."

"What do you need?"

"I'm adapting what I told my Valar for presentation to these, and then in the event that they can't just - open a portal to my world and get it all direct from my Valar - or the event that they choose not to do so immediately - help parallelizing the conversations so it takes hundreds and not thousands of years to get anywhere."

"That makes sense."

"It is I think not your native talent but I believe you could pick it up."

"Some allied parties in Beleriand made me think fondly of the reasonableness of the Valar. It sounds interesting."

"It can be, on occasion."

"And worthwhile even when not interesting. Are there only the two -"

"Worlds? I don't know of others but two is an unprincipled number."

"May they be more like yours than like ours."

"I hope so or this is going to get really old."

"How long did it take you the first time?"

"I am a little over four hundred Years old and started as a child."

"I hope you're right that it can parallelize."

"There's no reason it shouldn't - it accelerated a lot once my Valar were pleasant enough conversationalists that people just had ordinary chats with them, even, without being scared of saying the wrong thing and getting an overreaction - and a lot of it was frontloading learning how they worked."

Nod. "I'd be delighted to help."

"It'll be good to have you."

And to Taniquetil, where she finishes up her writing and then seeks an audience with the Valar, maybe Ulmo if he has the attention to spare. (Aulë starts out perhaps best at "well-meaning" but Ulmo starts out best at... methodology.)

Ulmo will see her.