"Not usually. Things were introduced gently. Although it may be the chips make us more intuitively comfortable with some things - we have a lot of technology we can interface with directly -"

"Maybe someone'll find a way to do that with magic."

"I bet they will."

"Regrettably some of those likeliest to get on it are among those people'd be upset to see reembodied."

"It's possible they could just move to my world."

" - might help. You'd want them?"

"It would help if the oath reform could be extended to your sort of Elf."

" - yes, it really would."

"There were debates about it, people presented hypothetical scenarios, no one was that creative -"

"Eru was that creative! - or maybe yours had something a little kinder in store even before he - is 'changed his mind' the right concept -"

"Not exactly, although ours is less omniscient than he used to be so it might be accurate to a point. He has not published - alternate universe fanfiction of his plan -"

" - good, that'd be cruel to the Maitimo especially - he'll be so unhappy if people start being jumpy around him -"

"He's not working right now, although considering that he's Maitimo the line between 'working' and 'socializing' is blurred. So it'll have a little while to die down if it breaks badly."

"Not working?"

"The kids aren't grown yet."

" - I hadn't realized."

"Finyarë Noquellë and Finyarima Aratarya."

"You'd think after his father burdened him with Nelyafinwë he'd abandon the whole enterprise when he got the chance to pick a fathername." But he's smiling.

"Nobody in the entire family unburdened with a 'fin'. It's an epidemic. They both prefer their other name."

"Is the mother someone our world has?"

"Their Maia assistant usually prefers male pronouns and 'alloparent'."

He appears to be a bit speechless.

"In our world that, uh, would be impossible on many, many levels."

"I have been informed. There were footnotes."