"I suppose."

And they talk people!! Maedhros is clearly stressed by having forgotten most of the ones he knew.

Doooooes the ring think it could do people-facts without touching episodic memory about them.

Yeah probably (mindcontrol is so pretty!!)

Can it do better than "yeah probably".

It could really use some molding clay to practice on here. But it can do that.

No clay.

Ring might be able to do factual memory without episodic.

Probably not right now but I'd appreciate it in a bit.

Whenever works for you.

They talk and sing well into the evening and then (after the children have emphatically declined to be put to bed) well into the night and he accepts a guest room and does not sleep and in the morning asks Ambela about the memories.

"I can try it. Now? Do you want to see?"

"I would. Thank you."

She lets him see.

Names and faces and person-knowledge in that way he has without events or times or places or anything else. Careful careful careful.

The ring is so cooperative and doesn't even point out that they'd just have to pull that gorgeous glowing string right there -

Good 'cause they're not gonna. What would that even do.

Make all of that information hers, and then let her change it around! She could genderswap everybody in his head as a social experiment or something.

Wow no. Just gonna do the factual memory thing.

But she could, isn't that exciting to know she could?

It's sort of academically interesting but it is not happening.

What if they get someone to consent.

She is not going around asking that.

Why not?

It would be weird. Let's just do what they are doing.

Yeah yeah okaaay.

Good.