"You're welcome. I have been assuming I can keep my souvenir but it seemed polite to ask -?"

" - oh, yeah, I don't - they weren't for me. They were to fix things."

Nod. "It has a personality. It's sort of cute when it doesn't have any teeth. I taught it to read."

Giggle. "I might make more."

The ring thinks this is nonsense. It is a unique ring and there can't be any others Ambela could kill him to make very sure.

"...it does not want siblings."

Snort. "Noted."

"I don't suppose it has a user manual - it's trying to help but its idea of trying to help is seventy percent coming up with reasons Varda might want to put its mind control features back -"

"That one's actually not mine. The Three are - the ones Elrond and Galadriel and Mithrandir have to protect their domains - but I thought three was a better distribution of power than one, and I wouldn't have done mind control powers, so Annatar did this one secretly on his own."

"And they don't just all work similarly enough that I could go ask one of the holders of the others?"

"I imagine you'd learn some from doing so but the One is more powerful than them, you might have to be more careful."

"I will be the picture of conservatism."

"I trust you. It sounds like the stakes are lower, these days, that helps."

"Yes."

"Is there anything they can do for the dead."

"Which set?"

"Ours."

"They think with some work they could keep them unconscious if they want that. Mandos is going to be a lot less picky about reembodiments. In my world ex-captives were invariably handled by memory rollback but the situation is different here and will require discussion."

"That makes sense. I wonder if there's somewhere we could put people who would not be welcome reembodied here."

"Depending on why they would not be welcome, either my Valinor, my Endorë, or some colony planet in my world might be reasonable choices."

"You have colony planets? Cool."

"We don't yet but Fëanáro invented faster than light travel a few months ago so they just got easier to arrange! Besides, it sounds like fun to practice ring functions somewhere safely uninhabited and see if I can get a nicely terraformed planet out of it at the end."

"Oooh."

The ring thinks that sounds great.

...aww. She pats it.

"We've done a lot of work since then if anyone wants the notes."

"We?"